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Bandwidth Exceeded – Oops!

30 November 2011
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My apologies if you were unable to access this site in the last 24 hours, getting this rather sparse error message: As you can see it’s fixed now; who knew a GigeByte a day wouldn’t be enough! Only last month I posted that this site had tipped over 25,000 unique monthly visitors for the first [...]

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25,029 Unique Visitors in the Last 30 Days!

24 October 2011
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Edit: November’s final number (including a dip because I exceeded my bandwidth limit) was 33,212, a 35% increase on 25,000! For the first time since I started this ‘ckle blog some 4 yearish years ago, it has racked up over 25,000 unique visitors over the last 30 days! “Unique” means that each visitor is only [...]

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>1,000 Visitors to my Blog Yesterday!

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It’s been tantalisingly close for some weeks now, but for the first time since starting my blog 4 years ago, I tipped over the magic 1,000 visitors mark yesterday. The actual number was 1,103 visitors, and that doesn’t include me (I filter out my own ip address from the stats). It’s interesting that Mondays or [...]

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Facebook Allows Custom URLs

22 June 2009

Ok, this is probably old news, but FaceBook now allows you to set your own url, e.g. my facebook profile used to be here: http://www.facebook.com/people/Colin-McNulty/1421747440 Now it is here: http://www.facebook.com/colinmcnulty This is very nice, I like. Why they didn’t do such an obvious feature before is a bit of a mystery really. However, getting a [...]

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Comments are working again

22 May 2009

I don’t know what happened to the blog this week, but I couldn’t login as administrator yesterday. I managed to fix that, though I don’t actually know how. Then I was told that comments weren’t working, somehow the option to force people to be logged in to comment was turned back on?!? Weird. It should [...]

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Recovering from Internal Server Errors

22 March 2009

You may have noticed that my blog has been offline for a couple of days. To be honest, I’m not sure how it happened, but I have discovered the cause. The process of fixing it may prove beneficial to others, so I’ll detail it here. Here’s what the problem looked like: As you can see, [...]

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My WordPress Blog was Hacked… again!

22 February 2009

I periodically check my blog stats with Google Analytics, something I did the other night. Take a look at the traffic graph (click the image to see a bigger version): As you can see, something happened around the 5th Feb that knocked about 75% of the normal traffic off the site! Obviously I was bothered [...]

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This Blog Was Hacked

30 June 2008

I’ve been having some problems these last few weeks with excessive bandwidth usage and had been unable to work out why the average bandwidth used per visitor had increased five fold! Basically I’d hit my upper bandwidth limit twice in the last week (you may had noticed) despite not loading the site with much more [...]

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