---
title: All About lesterchan.net
date: 2009-11-18 01:00:26
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2009/11/18/all-about-lesterchan-net/
author: Lester Chan
categories:
  - Site
tags:
  - Dell
  - lesterchan.net
  - plugins
  - theme
  - WordPress
---

## 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](http://www.m1connect.com.sg/) (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](http://www.vodien.com/) 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

If you are looking for [web hosting](http://www.vodien.com/), do check them out, their support response time is fantastic!

## 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](http://fancybox.net/) to display single images in a modal window. Yes, I am using [jQuery](http://jquery.com/) as well. For some of my feeds like my Twitter feed and WordPress Plugins feed are retrieved and parsed using [SimplePie](http://simplepie.org/) 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](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-ban) and [WP-PostRatings](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#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](https://lesterchan.net/gallery/). Both of them are not available to the public as it is highly customized to this website.

- [Akismet](http://akismet.com/ "Akismet")
- [Breadcrumb](http://www.thedevproject.com/projects/wordpress-breadcrumb-plugin/ "Breadcrumb") – *Modified*
- [Digg Button](http://tech.cybernetnews.com/digg-button/ "Digg Button")
- [Google XML Sitemaps](http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/ "Google XML Sitemaps")
- lesterchan.net Plugin – *Not Available*
- [WordPress.com Stats](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/ "WordPress.com Stats")
- [WP-CommentNavi](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-commentnavi "WP-CommentNavi")
- [WP-DBManager](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-dbmanager "WP-DBManager")
- [WP-DownloadManager](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-downloadmanager "WP-DownloadManager")
- [WP-EMail](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-email "WP-EMail")
- WP-GalleryViewer 1.00 – *Not Available*
- [WP-PageNavi](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-pagenavi "WP-PageNavi")
- [WP-PluginsUsed](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-pluginsused "WP-PluginsUsed")
- [WP-Polls](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-polls "WP-Polls")
- [WP-PostViews](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-postviews "WP-PostViews")
- [WP-Print](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-print "WP-Print")
- [WP-RelativeDate](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-relativedate "WP-RelativeDate")
- [WP-ServerInfo](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-serverinfo "WP-ServerInfo")
- [WP-Stats](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-stats "WP-Stats")
- [WP-UserOnline](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-useronline "WP-UserOnline")

Full Details on my [Plugins Used Page](https://lesterchan.net/site/plugins-used/).

## Tracking

I am using the following statistical tools to track and analyze my site traffic. - [Webalizer](http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/)
- [Google Analytics](https://www.google.com/analytics/)
- [WordPress.com Stats](https://http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/)
- [Extreme Tracking](http://extremetracking.com/) (Depreciated)

## URL Shortener

I am using [lc.sg](http://lc.sg/) as my personal URL shortener and it is powered by [YOURLS](http://yourls.org/) which is initially developed by me but now, it is developed mainly by [Ozh](http://planetozh.com/) 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.