Finding my journal slow to load lately? I just figured out why. I was looking at the site rankings for deviantART at www.alexa.com and found that dA is ranked 455 in the world 😀 Pretty cool! Well, I checked out my own site just for the sake of interest. I see that I’m ranked 455,535 in the world. I kinda laughed because that doesn’t seem high in comparison. But then it kicked in that it is within the top 500,000 sites in the world. That’s actually a lot of pageviews for my crappy Celeron 333MHz server with 256MB of RAM and 20GB hard drive. In addition to www.kevinthom.com, the server also hosts this journal, my portfolio site, www.tma.ca, www.thebelowjobs.com, www.elusivebutterfly.ca, www.thesteelheader.com, and www.justpixels.ca. It’s also hosting email for those domains, spam filtering, plus mySQL, DNS, and SSH. Yeah. I need a new server. I’m investigating what it will take to move all of this stuff to the new server. I’m paranoid about the whole thing just dying one day. I’d be so screwed 😛
Server
by Kevin Thom | Jun 26, 2005 | 2 comments
Ya, a bit slower than a lot of other sites … but still, it loads and it’s all there. Amazing that uhm, ‘older’ stats have lasted this long. Of course, you’re not one to jump on the upgrade path for the sake of upgrading 😉
i’m pretty sure the server will run forever if i leave it there… it’s in a datacenter with really frosty air conditioning and nice clean power, so little can go wrong with it. however, i’m still nervous :nod: