Updates about lesterchan.net itself: redesigns, new features, and changes under the hood.
My December 2009 site traffic stats: 11,295,850 hits, 969,383 pages and 269,297 visits, from 174,310 unique sites. Daily hits averaged 364,382, peaking at 444,000-odd, totalling roughly 44.7 million KBytes transferred over the month. A solid finish to the year.
WordPress 2.9 was released on 19th December 2009. Highlights include a global undo and Trash feature, so an accidentally deleted post or comment can be restored, finally doing away with those annoying are-you-sure confirmation messages we used to endure.
My November 2009 site traffic stats: 11,232,870 hits, 907,322 pages and 252,818 visits from 158,597 unique sites. Daily hits averaged 374,429, peaking near 420,000, with about 43.6 million KBytes transferred over the month. Traffic stays remarkably steady.
This site runs on what's effectively a dedicated server, hosting only 30 other domains belonging to friends and family of Michael and me. It sits at M1 Connect, formerly Qala, with 1Mbps guaranteed and 10Mbps burstable bandwidth.
I'm no SEO guru, just picking up bits from friends and forums, and I don't believe in paying thousands when most tools are free. Here I share the simple things I did to improve this site's SEO.
My October 2009 site traffic stats: 11,689,658 hits, 974,268 pages and 255,532 visits from 156,167 unique sites. Daily hits averaged 377,085, peaking near 426,000, with roughly 46.1 million KBytes transferred over the month. Another strong month for the site.
My September 2009 site traffic stats: 11,514,395 hits, 881,091 pages and 234,920 visits from 160,044 unique sites. Daily hits averaged 383,813, with about 43.7 million KBytes transferred over the month. Numbers holding strong heading into the year's final stretch.
My August 2009 site traffic stats: 11,487,833 hits, 918,191 pages and 237,324 visits from 167,558 unique sites. Daily hits averaged 370,575, with about 44.7 million KBytes transferred over the month. A steady, healthy showing for the height of summer.
My July 2009 site traffic stats: 13,017,194 hits, 892,110 pages and 245,909 visits from 175,508 unique sites. Daily hits averaged 419,909, peaking around 520,000, with roughly 50.1 million KBytes transferred. A noticeably bigger month than the ones before.
My June 2009 site traffic stats: 12,353,277 hits, 928,925 pages and 238,957 visits from 174,547 unique sites, with about 47.9 million KBytes transferred over the month. Another consistently strong showing as the site keeps drawing steady traffic.
My May 2009 site traffic stats: 10,860,869 hits, 735,381 pages and 208,951 visits from 159,587 unique sites, with about 39.7 million KBytes transferred over the month. A slightly quieter month, but still healthy traffic overall.
My April 2009 site traffic stats: 10,377,687 hits, 708,306 pages and 187,375 visits from 154,940 unique sites, with about 39.2 million KBytes transferred over the month. A slightly quieter month, but traffic stays comfortably in the millions.
I host lesterchan.net on an ex-FRRO shared and reseller server, now effectively a dedicated box shared with Michael Feng. I also have a shared hosting account with a dedicated IP sponsored by Vodien, whose customer service is excellent and fast.
My March 2009 site traffic stats: 10,433,420 hits, 687,906 pages and 193,613 visits from 162,377 unique sites, with about 40.1 million KBytes transferred over the month. Another solid month, with traffic holding steady in the low millions.
After nearly 24 hours of downtime, the site is finally back online. We removed the server from REACH Datacenter at 10pm and reached Qala around 11pm. Two mistakes: we forgot a CentOS installation DVD for Derrick's server, which delayed us.
Michael and I are moving this server from REACH Datacenter to Qala Datacenter on Friday, 27th March 2009. The site is expected down for eight hours, from 2200hrs Friday to 0600hrs Saturday, though hopefully it'll take less time than that.
My February 2009 site traffic stats: 10,800,627 hits, 650,841 pages and 183,506 visits from 150,368 unique sites, with about 40.6 million KBytes transferred over the month. A solid showing despite February being the shortest month of the year.
My January 2009 site traffic stats: 11,276,573 hits, 710,401 pages and 184,462 visits from 144,281 unique sites, with about 44 million KBytes transferred over the month. A strong start to the year, with traffic comfortably in the millions.
Time to mention the .sg domain I've owned for about two years, lc.sg. On the front end it's my personal RSS aggregator, while on the back end it doubles as my own URL shortener for quick, tidy links.
Some minor updates bump lesterchan.net to version 3.30. I combined five JavaScript files, namely TW-Sack, ThickBox, DBX, the DBX key file and my own script, into one, and minified the CSS and JavaScript using YUI Compressor for faster loading.
My December 2008 site traffic stats: 10,101,880 hits, 691,791 pages and 170,341 visits from 137,608 unique sites, with about 42.5 million KBytes transferred over the month. A strong close to the year, with traffic firmly in the millions.
I've upgraded lesterchan.net to WordPress 2.7 along with all my updated plugins. Please let me know of any bugs by email or in the comments, thanks! The update went smoothly, taking only about 30 minutes with few compatibility issues.