Looking back on the server logs it suddenly dawns on me, my pride and joy is now 5 years old, party!!!

That’s some History…

It’s been a rollercoaster ride. This site’s first incarnation appeared back on a very early incarnation of Blogger before Google bought them out. Then under the guise of wolfsclaw.com on a UK hoster running PHP 4 and Textile, then off to TextDrive PHP 5 and Wordpress for a while. Then over to DreamHost then MediaTemple Grid-Server → full DV box.

Now finally it’s sitting on it’s own custom Linux VPS server under Xen virtualisation, running Ruby on Rails with professional-grade deployment and load-balancing nodes. All made possible by SliceHost

It’s been quite a ride but I’ve enjoyed it and have no intention of letting up just yet.

Why do it?

I originally started the blogging idea as a means of putting myself out there, finding new friends, colleagues and quasi-self-promotion. But it’s thankfully grown away from that and now whenever I solve something difficult or write up some crackin’ solution it goes here.

I work on the notion if it’s helpful to me then it’s probably helpful to someone else out there, and if I end up making someone’s day then that’s thanks enough.

Still no Ad’s!

Yep I’m still sticking with my policy of no ad’s or annoying popups on the site, financing it out of my own pocket for the greater good.

Hackers go Bye Bye!

And having had no major break-ins or take downs in it’s history, life’s been mighty nice.

I’ve implemented load balancing on the web server to keep the Digg effect from happening and have a nice pool of bandwidth and processor resources and nightly disk imaging to keep things secure and bullet-proof.

Numbers?

If your interested, the logs suggest around 3,000 visitors a day, averaging 60,000 a month. Google Analytics tracks the details for me and sends a graphical chart each month, so far 200 goal achivements per month can’t be bad!.

Looking forward to the next 5!

Take care all,

‘Goodnight and Good Luck’