Turkey Day Web Traffic

Nov 232009
 

Are you worried about your website traffic dumping on Turkey Day? If you live in the United States, or get  lot of U.S. traffic you might expect it. The reality is though, it’s just another day, and don’t be surprised if you actually get more traffic than expected.

Looking at my own stats for a few of my sites, I found Thanksgiving played an insignificant roll in web traffic or it’s following days.

Looking at 2008′s benchmark from Google Analytics, traffic appeared to actually go up for most sites. This was based on an sites similar in size to 500 pages. Looking at benchmarks by category here is a list of the categories ordered by largest increased Turkey Traffic first. Continue reading »

After I’m Done Using the Computer I Like to Relax and Use the Computer

Jul 302009
 

You read the title right. After sitting all day on the PC doing analyses, building websites, and managing this blog, I like to finish the day by going on the computer. Not really, but I do often. It’s the American Idol, dance, prime time T.V. stuff that forces me back to the PC. My wife and kids love all those competition shows, and I simply can’t stand them. My other choices? Watch T.V. in bed upstairs, or actually have a little fun with the computer.

Stick around and follow this three part posts about game servers. I’ll post some reviews of a few, and tell you what I like to use. Today’s post will review the popular gaming server site Counter-Strike. RSS and email subscription can be found on top of the left sidebar of this site. Part II is now available.

Getting Blasted in Half Life – It’s Not Me

I admit it. I used to play Half Life. I got pretty into it, even hosted my own server, and then I heard about Counter-Strike Source. Continue reading »

Gaming Servers

Jan 232009
 

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It’s not always business as usual, and believe it or not many people have fun online. This brings me to the topic of gaming servers. UGT Servers offers Ventrilo and Teamspeak servers. Stop hogging your own bandwidth by hosting a Teamspeak channel, and have your friends share a low cost server designed just for you. A Ventrilo Server is very inexpensive.

UGT Severs has a fairly broad global presence so speed and connectivity issues should not be problem. Here is a listing of country locations, Ventrilo Hosting. They offer aggressive pricing, as low as $2.69 a month for ten people, and can support as many as 100 persons. Servers are web based controlled, and are easy to manage. They even have flash tutorials to help you along if you are new to this kind of stuff. There is no limitations to bandwidth besides the number of persons using it, and once you are up and running you can kiss could bye to dogging your own computer.

I admit, I used to be one of those gaming fanatics, and I even hosted my own Teamspeak server. The server was really my pc, and in fact it was the PC I played the games on. That is a drag, and I just wished there was a service like this when I played a lot. Want to start a gaming community? Support it with a Ventrilo Server, and make everyone know about it on your site.

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