10,000,000+ blog post views!

Statistics is an interesting thing. It shows some raw figures, but the interpretation depends on the interpreter and the goals 😉

So, some raw facts about the blog (only the blog, no forum or other static content from the site!):

  • The first Blog post was made on July 28, 2006
  • Blog post views are counted since August 2007
  • The busiest month was July 2011 (450,567 views)
  • The busiest day was Jan 02, 2012 (21,727 views)
  • The total counted post views is 10,025,678

What can I say… Thanks all for visiting! Recently I did not have much time to update the site and mostly was struggling with technical issues, but now let’s see if we can reach 1,000,000 monthly page views (globally). Current record is 921,233 page views (May 2011).

The VPS has been migrated to a new hosting company!

Updated on Dec 04 @ 18:00The VPS has been migrated to a new hosting company – Linode! New OS, new everything. Please let me know if something is not working. Let’s test it!

Also see: Site performance, Server errors, outages and tunings forum thread.

Updated on Dec 03, 2011 @ 00:47:The VPS was migrated last night but with the same result – when log-processing begins simultaneously on other VPSes, everything dies. And then becomes very unstable.

Next step is to migrate to another hosting company. This is what I’m busy with right now.

If you know any cheap, reliable, fast dedicated hosters allowing adult content, please let me know 😉
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The recent 1 hour outage was caused by a ripper. Demotivator of the day

One idiot was ripping the site with enormous speed and connections per second. Something I haven’t tuned the site for, have no money, have no only intentions to support such behaviour and will not tolerate it.

Yes, the site contains gigabytes of pictures, yet it’s free. Want more and right now? Donate. Want to have all the pictures on your disk and immediately? Donate more and I will upgrade the hardware. Do not want to pay? No problem. But behave.

The recent couple of weeks I was busy tuning the performance. Pages load almost 5 times faster now. But I had no time for updates.

Apparently this DoS attack (effectively it was a DoS attack, and obviously not the first time) will keep me busy protecting the site from rippers for a couple of more weeks. Yes more fun…

I’m sooo pissed off…

See Site performance, Server errors, outages and tunings forum thread.

Aaaand another downtime…. Or sysadmin self-bondage

After a 14hour long battle with the hoster the problem has been sold. The VPS was inadvertently moved to another hosting server and when I started the old one (what I saw is that the server was down) there appeared two versions of the server running on the same IP-address.

So, sometimes I saw the old version of the forum with no latest MadJack’s posts (what gave me almost a heart-attack, because the last backup was made just before he posted his latest selfbondage adventures MJ-SB07/2011 – Back in the bag! and MJ-SB06/2011 – A different Chair tie — do not forget to check them out!) and sometimes the new version.

Anyway, I hope the period of the server administration self-bondage is over, what should theoretically free up some time for publishing. But for now, check what MadJack was busy with!

22 hour downtime and demotivators

To make the long story short – it was a dead disk in the RAID array. After 20 hours it’s finally replaced, so I hope it will take 6-8 more hours to synchronize.

Then we can finally get back to the original problem – periodic disk overload.

See also Server error, address not available forum thread.

Sleepless nights, wasted hours… Yeah back to the demotivators.

Joined Google+

Just joined Google+. I wonder how long my account there will last 😉

If anybody interested, this is my profile.

And here’s an update. You’ve heard about the “Real name” policy, haven’t you? Just got a warning from Google+ about my nick: Like Ra. And this is the result:

Your profile is being reviewed

Thank you for submitting your profile for review. Your profile will be reviewed again to see if it complies with our Names Policy. Reviews are usually completed within a few days. In the meantime, you have full access to Google+ and all other Google services.

If the review is successful, this message will disappear and you can continue using Google+. Otherwise, you’ll be informed that the review was unsuccessful and provided with further instructions.

We understand that Google+ and its Names Policy may not be for everyone at this time. We’d be sad to see you go, but if you do choose to leave, make a copy of your Google+ data first. Then, click here to disable Google+.

Definitely more polite than Facebook. But still this policy will frighten out lots of people.

Do we need international subforums?

Updated on Aug 31, 2011 @ 18:45:

Created three (so far) international sub-forums:

Published on Aug 31, 2011 @ 01:06
Do we need international subforums to discuss local issues, shops, clubs, parties, etc? Most obvious languages (according to the statistics) will be German (absolute leader after English), Russian, Dutch, French.

Any other ideas are also very welcome.