In the online world "hitting the bigs" happens when you're linked to by one of the mega sites like Fark or Boing Boing and the number of visitors to your site explodes.  Greensboro photog and blogger Lenslinger spun off a new blog based on his regular feature called Schmuck Alert and he won a link from Boing Boing.  Luckily his blog is on Blogger; if it had been hosted on a local shared server I can almost guarantee the thing would have crashed.  Congrats 'Slinger.