All About lesterchan.net
Server Specifications
This site can be considered running on a dedicated server as it only host 30 other domains which belongs to friends and families of both Michael and I. This server is housed at M1 Connect (previously known as Qala). It has 1mbps guaranteed and 10mbps burstable bandwidth.
- Dell PowerEdge 860
- Single Dual-Core Intel Xeon 3050, 2.13GHz, 1066MHz front side bus, 2MB cache
- 2x 1GB ECC DDR2 667 SDRAM
- 1x 250GB & 1x 500GB 7.2K RPM SATA II Hard Drive
- CentOS Release 5
I also have a backup server provided by Vodien Internet Solutions which I will rysnc to manually every week.
- Dell PowerEdge 2950
- 2x Intel Quad Core Xeon E5420
- 16GB Ram
- 4x 300GB SAS RAID 10
- CentOS Release 5
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WordPress Theme
This theme is developed by me and hence it is not available to the public as I want to keep it unique. I am using Facybox to display single images in a modal window. Yes, I am using jQuery as well. For some of my feeds like my Twitter feed and WordPress Plugins feed are retrieved and parsed using SimplePie which is included in WordPress.
There is also a iPhone version which is optimized for iPhone viewing, just visit this site in iPhone and it will redirect you to the iPhone version.
Most if not all of the pages in this website is validated as XHTML 1.0 Strict.
WordPress Plugins
I am a WordPress plugins developer however not all the plugins I developed are used on this website as I think plugins like WP-Ban and WP-PostRatings are not necessary as I don’t wish to ban any people from my site or getting my post rated.
I modified only one plugin which is the Breadcrumb plugin by Dan Peverill to have my plugins’ breadcrumbs such as WP-Email and WP-UserOnline displayed using it.
There are also two plugins which I created personally for this website, lesterchan.net Plugin houses several of the functions used in this website and WP-GalleryViewer powers my Gallery. Both of them are not available to the public as it is highly customized to this website.
- Akismet
- Breadcrumb – Modified
- Digg Button
- Google XML Sitemaps
- lesterchan.net Plugin – Not Available
- WordPress.com Stats
- WP-CommentNavi
- WP-DBManager
- WP-DownloadManager
- WP-EMail
- WP-GalleryViewer 1.00 – Not Available
- WP-PageNavi
- WP-PluginsUsed
- WP-Polls
- WP-PostViews
- WP-Print
- WP-RelativeDate
- WP-ServerInfo
- WP-Stats
- WP-UserOnline
Full Details on my Plugins Used Page.
Tracking
I am using the following statistical tools to track and analyze my site traffic.
- Webalizer
- Google Analytics
- WordPress.com Stats
- Extreme Tracking (Depreciated)
URL Shortener
I am using lc.sg as my personal URL shortener and it is powered by YOURLS which is initially developed by me but now, it is developed mainly by Ozh himself. Ozh if you see this, thank you!
Others?
If I missed out anything and you wish to know more about it, do leave it in the comments and I will try my best to add it in.