It's interesting. I just got word that my site was pulling 6-7GB per day in traffic, sometimes peaking at 9 GB. Now I never really imagined I had that many readers, and to be honest... I don't. It seems that the script that was in place to stop people from Leeching MP3's by just deep-linking into the site didn't work for me.
This means we had to come up with an interim solution because the hosting people were starting to complain. Therefore, I constructed a brand-spanking new 404 Error Page, deleted a whole bunch of the Mp3's associated with older entries on the site, and made sure the last 4 months' MP3 links still worked. Now we'll see how many *real* readers I have out there. So if anyone out there is interested in Vintage Wintertijd Music, you'll have to mail me. Tee hee.
Furthermore, I've added three new Galleries to the web-site. There's two more to come. I had an enormous backlog of pictures that at some point in time appeared on this site without being featured in the Galleries, so I'm working on fixing that. Updates will appear during the next two days on the side bar of this site, but in the mean time the ones that are ready are the one about the airports, the one about Stockholm and the one about the Stephen Simmonds gig.
The other day I also noticed that below the obituary of my Father, someone had posted a lot of colourful websites about she-males, dicks, penis enlargement and viagra. While the man did have a sense of humour, I didn't really think it was fitting so I decided to take tighter control over the site. I'm in the process of closing down all entries except the ones from the last quarter for comments. If there's anything you want to say to posterity about one of the older articles, you'd better make it quick. Also, I'm deleting any comment that looks the least bit pointless and I'm sharpening my Blacklist.
So. Phew. Having a website isn't exactly maintenance free. And then I'm not even involved in the SysAdmin side of things. I have Arno to take care of that.
Much obliged, Arno. :-D
Posted by Chris at February 2, 2006 07:32 PM