Since I have moved over to my own server which is located in my own country (Singapore), I would like to know the load time for this site from my users, just give a rough estimate will do. The poll is located on the right hand side menu.

Thanks =)

If you can see this post, it means that the moving of host is completed and now this site resides on my own server, FRRO.

This server is housed by IDC Services Pte Ltd and backed by Qala.

This server is a Dell PowerEdge 860.

• Single Dual-Core Intel Xeon 3050, 2.13GHz, 1066MHz front side bus, 2MB cache
• 2x 1GB ECC DDR2 667 SDRAM
• CentOS Release 5

Hopefully, this will be the last move ever.

DreamHost is pissing me off these few weeks as a lot of my users complained to me that the plugins they downloaded from this site is corrupted. This is due to the fact that the connection is being cut off before the file is being downloaded completely. On top of that, the loading time for my site is horribly long.

I had enough of DreamHost nonsense and I am moving to my own server, FRRO after my exams which my last paper is on 4th December 2007.

Before that, this site will go down for at least 8 hours on the 30th November 2007 because DreamHost is moving the server that this site is hosted to another datacenter.

Hopefully by mid December, the move will be completed.

I have changed all my plugins download links listed on My Programming Portfolio Page to point to the Official WordPress Plugins Repository instead of to my own site as many users have problem downloading it from my site because DreamHost is quite sucky recently. I have been able to download it at times and most of the times the download just got cut off. So I figured out it would be better to point it directly to plugins repository instead.

Sorry if it took so long, I have been very busy with my school.

I am going to move over to my own server, FRRO, once my contract with DreamHost ends in January 2009.

Go: My Programming Portfolio Page

I have did some Search engine optimization (SEO) for this site.

• Removed /archives/ from the blog post url
• Dynamic Page Title (finally)
• Page Title will appear first

After this phrase is done, I am going to rename /blogs/ to /blog/ because technically, there is only 1 blog and not many blogs.

I have finally took some time off to redirect http://www.lesterchan.net to http://lesterchan.net and update my links to reflect this change.

As for my links in my WordPress plugins, I will update it when I release updates for all of them after WordPress 2.3 is released (sometime in September 2007).

For all those that linked me, it would be good if you can change my url from http://www.lesterchan.net to http://lesterchan.net. If you find it too troublesome to do so, you can just leave it as .htaccess will take care of it.

But most importantly, a big thank you for linking me.

Why is .www deprecated?

By default, all popular Web browsers assume the HTTP protocol. In doing so, the software prepends the ‘http://’ onto the requested URL and automatically connect to the HTTP server on port 80. Why then do many servers require their websites to communicate through the www subdomain? Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient@mail.domain.com. Likewise, web servers should allow access to their pages though the main domain unless a particular subdomain is required.

Succinctly, use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.

By: www. is deprecated.

FeedBurner
I finally took some time to update my site’s feed to use FeedBurner feed.

So now I can see how many people are subscribe to my blog’s feed. =D

Feel free to subscribe to GaMerZ.Blog feed or if you want to keep track of my WordPress Plugins development, feel free to subscribe to GaMerZ.WordPress feed.

Technorati Ranking
As my site is still on WP 1.5.2, I can’t use any WordPress plugin to display my Technorati Rank as all of them requires WP 2.0 and above.

I took some code from Douglas Karr’s Technorati Rank WordPress Plugin and an image from Eric’s site and with the help of GD2 library, I generated my Technorati Ranking Image which has the same style as the FeedBurner feed count.

Both the FeedBurner and Technorati Ranking information can be found on the right menu, under Tracking.

PS: My http://lesterchan.net/ site is ranked 1,923 in Technorati! I have finally made it to Technorati Top 2K sites!

I have changed the width of this site from 600px to 800px.

Back in 2003 when I designed this layout, 800×600 is still quite the normal resolution for most computers so in order to make this site layout compatible with 800px in width, I chose 600px as the width.

Come 4 years later, where LCD became cheaper and cheaper and the native resolution for a 15″ LCD is 1024×768, I have decided to change the width to 800px, so that i can incorporate some pictures into the post as I think a post with all text will makes it looks pretty dull and furthermore it is a multimedia era.

But I will be changing to a new layout soon, once i can get the design senses in me to design the header and some free time to port over the content.

I will be starting off by posting some Microsoft Remix 2007 event photos in the next blog post.

Kindly do a force refresh on this site by holding Shift and pressing F5.

Just to follow the trend, I have installed Mediawiki into http://wiki.lesterchan.net/. For those who do not know what Mediawiki is, it is the exact same software that powers Wikipedia.

I intend to post some of my stuff there which requires modification often. The only valuable page that so far is my to-do list of my Wordpress Plugins.

This site will be turning 5 on 24th March 2007, which falls on my birthday too. For the past 4 years+, I have been running this site using my allowance and sometimes my mom will pay for the hosting. Many readers asked me why not put ads on my site as I have pretty good site traffic.

I will never put ads on any of my personal site, now or in the future. This is like my hobby and I do not want to earn anything from my hobby. And the main reason for it is, I simply hate site with ads.

Also, I will always provide updates, and most importantly support, for my WordPress Plugins and PHP Scripts for free, rest assured that. I will also create more WordPress Plugins if time allows, I hope I can stop when the number of plugins I created reached 20 (current count is 13).

Just some message I want to let everyone knows =)