Record traffic today on the site -- December 6, 2010

[Marcus-SanDiego]

Thought you guys would be interested to know that we will have a record day today. Record page views and a record number of visits. Still another 4.5 hours left in the day.

[danewilson77]

Awesome Marcus. Real happy.....

[kayger12]

Very cool.

[az3579]

And the numbers are???
I noticed at times the site slows down a bit. That's probably why.

[Marcus-SanDiego]

I think so, az. If it keeps doing that, I will look for a more robust service at MediaTemple.

Right now we are at 176 unique visitors and 3100 page views. Modest numbers relative to other sites but the most we've had here.

[kayger12]

That's a good kind of problem to have.

[Marcus-SanDiego]

I agree, Kayger. At this point, we're using MediaTemple's grid service (shared service). However, I can upgrade and get a server that is dedicated to our site only. We'll see if that becomes necessary. I never, ever imagined that it would be necessary. I'm not sure we ever will be that busy but I am keeping my eye on it.

I do not like the slowdowns that the site is suffering from during the day (once or twice a day).

[Marcus-SanDiego]

What's interesting is that the site is busy right this moment. The site is running pretty quick. I think it's during the day, when more people are taxing MediaTemple's servers, that we're suffering.

[Marcus-SanDiego]

Just blew by our old record. We're now at 3600 page views. That's 500 page views in less than an hour (40 minutes to be exact). The number of visitors is now at a record. Therefore, we're working on record traffic from here on out for the rest of the evening.

[Marcus-SanDiego]

Here is how the day ended:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/marcussandiego/statszhpmafia.jpg

[onepercent]

Congrats, Marcus! It's a great site so far. A great group of guys (and girls?).

[Marcus-SanDiego]

As far as I know, there are no females on the site. At least no one has told me otherwise.

I did see that a few girls "like" our ZHP Mafia Facebook page, though. So who knows.

[bimmer848]

didnt know the mafia was on facebook. i'll check it out! congrats on traffic too, im really diggin this place!

[Marcus-SanDiego]

didnt know the mafia was on facebook. i'll check it out! congrats on traffic too, im really diggin this place!

Glad you're enjoying it.

Here is the link to the Facebook page:

BMW ZHP 330 ZHP Mafia (http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/ZHP-Mafia/155236827840532)

[Rayzah Blade]

If there was a 'like' button available, I would hit it right now. Then I would 'unlike' it, just so I could 'like' it all over again.
Well done Marcus, site seemed to be running quite all right yesterday when I was browsing.

[Marcus-SanDiego]

Rayzah, thanks, pal.

I have a call into the sales department at my host servicer. I want to see what I can do to avoid the periodic slowdowns.

[Marcus-SanDiego]

And the numbers are???
I noticed at times the site slows down a bit. That's probably why.

az, I saw that someone came to our site today because of the ZHP Mafia link you have in your signature at another site. Good job!

[Marcus-SanDiego]

I'm sitting on hold with Media Temple right now. Going to talk with their tech department and see if the slowdowns have anything to do with the way my site is configured, etc. Maybe it's something in the coding.

[NDubSki]

We're hitting the big time boys! This is pretty phenomenal.

[kayger12]

Facebook, "Liked!"