It seems that the traffic is starting to pickup on both the discussion forums and my blog. I had over 1 million hits in the month of January 2011 from some 17,451 visitors which I'm sure is small by most accounts but that's my little world.
Month Unique visitors Number visits Pages Hits Bandwidth
Blog Jan 2011 17,451 32,049 220,953 1,356,558 11.92 GB
Over the past few days I've taken to enabling caching on both WordPress and SMF... also enabling GZIP in Apache along with HTTP header caching. I'm not quite done just yet... I'll probably upgrade to PHP v5.2+ and install APC or Memcache or something along those lines.
The hope is to make the site a little faster and hopefully it won't slow down too much as the number of visitors increases.
I thought running my own VPS would be fun compared to shared hosting, while it's been a great experience I've come to discover that there are lots of little tweaks involved in trying to squeak out every little bit of performance while keeping the entire system from being hacked by some 13 year-old in some far off country.
Let me know if anyone has any issues or problems... stale content is probably the biggest problem from flawed caching.
Cheers!
