11-04-2004, 12:00 AM
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Executive Editor
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Pocket PC Thoughts Breaks 1 Million Visitors a Month in October
October 2004 was a momentous month for Pocket PC Thoughts, and not because our server kept dying under the load. :lol: No, October was the first month in the four-year history of the site that we had more than one million visitors in a single month. Breaking the one million-a-month barrier has been a personal goal of mine for several months now. We've been hovering in the 900K range for six months or so, and I knew sooner or later we'd have a really hot month and bust through that one million mark. Here's the official graph:
I'd like to thank all of you, our readers, for coming back to visit us again and again. I'd like to thank you for your financial support as well, through our subscriber program, clicking on banners and supporting our sponsors, and for buying products through our affiliate links. 2004 has been a rough year financially, but through your support we've managed to stay alive. Thanks for helping up to break the one million mark, and here's to the next big milestone, whatever that may be! :way to go:
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11-04-2004, 12:06 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Woo!
Ill do my best to move you right along to the next big milestone, Million in a day! 
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11-04-2004, 12:08 AM
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Editor Emeritus
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Million in a day? 8O
In any case, we've obviously found the source of the server problem: too many people. We're working on optimizing it, and no, that doesn't mean giving hard quizzes to people so they run away screaming. :lol:
--janak
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11-04-2004, 12:08 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
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11-04-2004, 12:11 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Great job keeping up with the extra traffic (for the most part  ). I've only seen a few php/DB errors, and usually 5-10 minutes resolves it. The site has never really been "slow" for me.
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11-04-2004, 12:19 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Dec 2003
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your server works surprisingly well. keep up the good work 
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11-04-2004, 12:25 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
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What sw do you use for those server bandwidth graphs?
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11-04-2004, 12:34 AM
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Executive Editor
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Originally Posted by alex_kac
What sw do you use for those server bandwidth graphs?
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Urchin ( www.urchin.com) - it's fantastic software, though a bit expensive to buy on you own. We got it from ev1servers for $20... :mrgreen:
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11-04-2004, 12:40 AM
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Executive Editor
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Originally Posted by ARNAGE2
your server works surprisingly well. keep up the good work |
That's mostly from the awsome work that Janak and Jorj do on the server to keep it humming along. I'd be completely dead in the water without them. :-)
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11-04-2004, 02:06 AM
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Executive Editor, Android Thoughts
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
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Originally Posted by alex_kac
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Urchin ( www.urchin.com) - it's fantastic software, though a bit expensive to buy on you own. We got it from ev1servers for $20... :mrgreen: |
I thought that graph looked familiar. We use Urchin at the company I do server administration for. It runs on our linux box and processes 100 or so reports nightly for our windows customers. Its the one thing in the past 11 months we haven't had really 'break'! (Which I'm kinda proud of, since I jury-rigged the entire system together to move reports from the windoze boxes to the linux box - everything runs smoothly despite being a lot of active 'parts' simultaneously) Nice piece of software, but pricey.
I guess Urchin isn't your server's problem...
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