Site update: New changes, wordpress rocks and I hate content stealers

WordPress is the best blogging platform I have ever used. Over last 3+ years I have published over 1200+ small how-to and tutorials. Both this blog and faq section runs on WordPress.

About site traffic

I never paid attention to web statistics. Recently I started to collect stats using webalizer and mint. Since May'06 this site received total 1,117,330 page views and unique 641,575 visitors. This blog received Google Pagerank (PR) 6 and many popular pages has PR 7 or 8. MySQL server serve 207.47 queries per minute. See the figure below for details:

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I consume 50-75GB bandwidth each month.

I must agree Yahoo! provides a quite reliable hosting environment. They are rock solid but I need more control (like ssh access and .htaccess etc). I do have a VPS box at Go daddy software. May be I will move this site to VPS box but I am not sure box will be able to handle such massive load. Moving a site can be a real pain, especially when it is an unpaid job ;)

On an average 800-1000 people read the blog using RSS and another 500+ via an email based weekly newsletter.

I am planning to do few changes to this site in the near future. One of which is move site to dedicated box (AMD64 or P4 -D with 1 GiG +FreeBSD) and to a new domain name which is easy to remember.

Do you find cyberciti.biz domain hard to remember? I am planning to use domain name nixcraft.com or nixcraft.in. The nixcraft.com domain is more suitable for this kind of work and is easy to remember, IMPO. To be frank I hold all five nixCraft TLD's since last 3-5 years. LOL lots of money spend for keeping these domain names alive. Do not worry if I make any changes, all of you forwarded to new domain automatically.

I hate content stealers

I do have a full time job. This job keeps me quite busy, as I had to finish the job on time and meet the deadlines.

Generally, I write detailed how-tos/tutorials in advance and schedule them for rest of week. Small news or links published on fly. Usually I write late at night OR early in the morning OR weekends if I get enough time. I write because:

I enjoy it :D
I love to share my experience with rest of the world
I get some wonderful comments, views, or emails from fellow UNIX users/sys admins etc. The response is always encouraging, especially when some one says THANK YOU for saving my A$$ :)

However, when I find people steal content from this site, my blood boils down badly. My humble request to spammers - do not steal the content, it takes tremendous amount of time and energy to write and maintain a blog/post/tutorial. It also hurts my search engine page rankings.

However, I am NOT going to switch to summery or short RSS feeds, because that will hurt to my loyal readers. There are other ways to deal with bad people.

Anyway I need to get back to bed it is already 2:05 AM; I have to attend university class tomorrow. I just wanted to say 'THANK YOU' to all my readers who browse (syndicates site) or spread a word about this site everyday. Your comments and suggestion keep me going on, on, and on.....

You should follow me on twitter here or grab rss feed to keep track of new changes.

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1 Joe September 17, 2006 at 3:40 am: Hi Vivek -
Are you using the wp-cache plugin? If not, I highly recommend it. It saved my site when my host provider was having process load problems.
2 Carthik September 17, 2006 at 5:18 am: Good blog you have here. I hear you about content copiers. Keep it going…
3 Cochiti September 17, 2006 at 6:37 am: Hi!
Thanks you for such a great site. As a new Linux Administrator, I found your blog last year. Believe it I have read almost each post. I must say thank for high quality content on a technical subject.
This is the first time I am writing a comment. Content stealing is a bad idea. I am glad that you are not switching to summery rss feed.
Please keep it up good work.
4 nixcraft September 17, 2006 at 7:01 pm: Hi joe!
I am using wp-cache but still MySQL is taking lots of load. It does show me lots of page as cached pages.
5 nixcraft September 17, 2006 at 7:02 pm: Carthik and Cochiti,
Thanks for comment and kind words.
Appreciate all of your feedback/post.
6 Josh September 17, 2006 at 10:01 pm: Hey joe,
thanks for da tip. I had installed wp-cache, my performance is up, and load is down. Btw, great blog keep it up good work.
Cheers,
Josh