Updates about lesterchan.net itself: redesigns, new features, and changes under the hood.
My November 2008 site traffic stats: 9,908,294 hits, 724,046 pages and 171,508 visits from 144,360 unique sites, with about 40.3 million KBytes transferred over the month. A solid month, with traffic holding comfortably in the millions.
My October 2008 site traffic stats: 10,028,100 hits, 732,058 pages and 167,902 visits from 142,702 unique sites, with about 36.7 million KBytes transferred over the month. A solid month, with traffic holding steady in the millions.
Busy with Nokia Remix 2008, I hadn't compiled my September traffic stats, but better late than never. September 2008 saw 10,026,167 hits, 804,734 pages and 173,723 visits, with about 37.3 million KBytes transferred over the month.
My August 2008 site traffic stats: 9,922,623 hits, 791,515 pages and 164,135 visits from 129,710 unique sites, with about 35.7 million KBytes transferred over the month. A solid month, with traffic holding steady close to ten million hits.
I spent over ten hours reworking lesterchan.net's layout to be iPhone-friendly. For now you can only view blog posts, not pages; I've no plans to make pages mobile-viewable yet, as it's a lot of work I find unnecessary.
My July 2008 site traffic stats: 9,569,791 hits, 765,670 pages and 166,191 visits from 111,190 unique sites, with about 32 million KBytes transferred over the month. A healthy month, with traffic holding steady well into the millions.
I'm a sucker for changelogs, documenting almost every change to my WordPress plugins, and I hope to bring that habit to this site too. It's been a month since lesterchan.net 3.0 launched, and along the way I've fixed many things.
My June 2008 site traffic stats: 7,080,355 hits, 623,724 pages and 152,955 visits from 102,765 unique sites, with about 23.3 million KBytes transferred over the month. A quieter month, though traffic still comfortably topped seven million hits.
I've brought lesterchan.net's launch forward a few days, since I may be busy on the original date of 9th June 2008. After more than four years on the same layout, version 2.0 is finally replaced by version 3.0.
My May 2008 site traffic stats: 5,293,620 hits, 483,805 pages and 176,349 visits from 103,405 unique sites, with about 12.1 million KBytes transferred over the month. A quieter month than usual, though visitor numbers held up reasonably well.
My April 2008 site traffic stats: 5,597,872 hits, 432,549 pages and 161,443 visits from 103,201 unique sites, with about 12.3 million KBytes transferred over the month. A steady month, with visitor numbers holding firm above 160,000.
From March 2008 I'll post my Webalizer site traffic monthly so readers can see how much lesterchan.net gets. March 2008 saw 4,153,886 hits, 504,964 pages and 145,390 visits, a healthy start to this new monthly tradition.
FRRO will undergo scheduled maintenance this Friday, 14th March 2008, from 2200 to 0400 GMT+8, an estimated six hours, as our servers migrate to the REACH Datacenter. Expect the affected sites to be offline during that window.
Since moving to my own server here in Singapore, I'd like to know how quickly this site loads for you. Just give a rough estimate in the poll on the right-hand menu. Thanks for helping me gauge the improvement!
If you can read this, the host move is complete and the site now resides on my own server, FRRO, housed by IDC Services. It's a Dell PowerEdge 860 with a dual-core Intel Xeon 3050 at 2.13GHz.
DreamHost has been frustrating me lately, with users complaining that plugins downloaded here are corrupted because the connection drops before the file finishes. The site's load time has also worsened, so I'm moving hosts yet again to fix these problems.
I've changed all the plugin download links on my Programming Portfolio page to point to the official WordPress Plugins Repository instead of my own site, since many users struggle to download from here because DreamHost has been so unreliable lately.
I've done some search engine optimisation for this site: removed /archives/ from the post URLs, added a dynamic page title. After this phase, I'm going to rename /blogs/ to /blog/, since technically there's only one blog, not many.
I've finally taken time to drop the www, redirecting and updating my links to reflect the change. I'll update the links in my WordPress plugins when I release their updates after WordPress 2.3 arrives in September 2007.
I've finally taken time to switch my site's feed over to FeedBurner, so I can see my subscriber count. Feel free to subscribe to the GaMerZ.Blog feed, or follow my GaMerZ.WordPress feed.
I've changed this site's width from 600px to 800px. Back in 2003 when I designed the layout, 800x600 was still a common resolution, so I chose 600px wide to suit it. Four years on, wider makes sense.
Just following the trend, I've installed MediaWiki on my site. For the uninitiated, MediaWiki is the same software that powers Wikipedia. I plan to post things there that need frequent updating, starting with my WordPress plugins to-do list.