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03/01/2009: "More Bandwidth Again"

For a few hours last night the site went down due to, again, exceeding it's allowable bandwidth. Seems the anti-hotlinking had very little effect, and it really is all direct traffic.

It's also very intense usage. My workplace is very jealous. For any of you who run websites, or do SEO work for them, here's some basics. Last month:
12,830 unique visitors
60,667 page views

Average time on site is an astonishing 4:28. That is unheard of within my knowledge. Even for other informational sites, 2-3 minutes is worth celebrating. And even more amazingly, new visitors continues to be over 75%. And while 70% of the traffic is from the US, visitors just this month are from 117 other countries.


So, I have gone ahead and (I think, their site is bad) upgraded from 12 to 30GB of transfer every month. This should cover us for at least a year I hope.


I also want to thank everyone who has donated or purchased products. That helps a lot with these fees, and has also made me guilty enough that even though I am stupid-busy I will get around to answering the email backlog (hopefully today) and try to set a more regular schedule to continue improving the site. I know there are still several guns for which I have some information, but have not taken the time to parse it out meaningfully and get it on the site.