Eternalmoonlight.net

My apologies for the, not really unexpected, downtime since last week for almost 5 days. I didn’t realized that this blog site will eventually reach its bandwidth quota for this month. I was planning to wait until May 1 so that the bandwidth will reset, but I just couldn’t live without my blog so I decided to purchase an additional increase in its bandwidth.

Most of you encountered this page for the past four days.

So what really happened?

A two weeks before the downtime, I checked the stat analysis of this blog. I saw a sudden spike in the page loads, and that means more users are coming to the site. I also saw that the bandwidth meter is nearing towards its quota. Since there are only a few days before the bandwidth resets (every 1st day of the month), I figured the remaining bandwidth could handle the visitors. But I was wrong. The bandwidth capped last Thursday, as I was notified automatically by my host via email.

According to the stats, my blog reached 112,817 page hits for this month and ate through my bandwidth.

The probable cause?

It was because of the Hana Kimi (Japan) & Hana Kimi (Taiwan) post. I wasn’t expecting that much visitors commenting and visiting that single the page. And I was really trying to avoid trolls and flaming on that topic.

How did I arrive to this conclusion?

Based on the stat screenshot above. The sudden spike started last March. That was when I posted the blog entry about Hana Kimi, it was posted on the 20th of March.

Solutions?

I upgraded my hosting plan so that I can get additional storage space and bandwidth. The bandwidth now is 2.5 times more than the previous one. And I also installed a cache plugin to reduce server load and multiple page requests that’s eating up my bandwidth.

Whew! Finally my blog is back (it wasn’t really gone).

Update: I just got my blog black and the comments have started appearing, yet again. Thanks to all those who visited and commented on the site. Just keep coming and commenting…

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Just a quick note on the updates and changes I made on this site.

You can now add me as a friend at Friendfeed and Imeem. Here are my profiles:

You can view the full list of my profiles at this page.

I removed Yapped since their service is already gone from the web.

Changes made at the about me page.

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I just have to try this one on my personal blog site…

Criticsrant.com created this nifty web page, or should I call test page, for blog readability. Simply enter your blog URL then the result will show how much ’school level’ is needed for reading your blog. They also included a ready made HTML code so you can post it in your blog or website.

Note: This tool also works on myspace profiles, livejournals, facebook, and most websites

I don’t know how how accurate the results are, but it seems to scan the first page of your website, and thus the results may vary from time to time. The image posted above is the result I got just now, while typing this entry.

[via my community blog site Tambayan.ph posted last Nov. 18, 2007]

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To celebrate the coming season…

I placed a script on my site that shows snow falling. Ok so I didn’t used the one with the image, because I just don’t want to upload another file. Anyway if you are reading this in an RSS feed, try to visit my site to see how it looks. Well actually, how the snow looks. Works in FF and IE.

It’s just a simple script I got at www.DynamicDrive.com

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Microsoft Live launched a webmaster tool (beta) for those who want to check their website stats using Microsoft’s tool. The tool claims to troubleshoot the crawling and indexing of your website, submit sitemaps and view statistics about your websites. But since it is still in beta, some functions are not yet working and there are still a few options to use.

Google has Analytics and Yahoo! has Site Explorer, both are a recommended tools for webmasters. Now Microsoft Live has also entered into the webmaster tool arena for their search engine. I’m really curious about this tool from MS since I’m still optimizing my site in their search engine.

Why Microsoft Live search? Isn’t Google and Yahoo! more popular?

Let’s make my other website, Tambayan.ph, as an example. According to Awstats (provided by my hosting service), my website’s internal statistics are as follows:

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Based on the different referring search engines, Windows Live ranks the 5th. I know that most web surfers use Google as their search engine, while others not new to the web are still loyal to Yahoo! search that’s why most of my traffic comes from those SE’s. While both of them are popular, there are still a large percentage of people who uses Microsoft Live search.

Why?

Because Microsoft is the most used OS in the world, it is almost the default and standard in most Internet Cafe’s and home computers. And guess what is the most used Internet browser? Internet Explorer, which comes with a default search setting using Microsoft Live search.

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When I go to an Internet shop they only have Internet Explorer as their browser, and no Firefox. And when I launch the program the default search is Live search, and sometimes there is a Yahoo! toolbar installed. I don’t see a lot of Google toolbars installed in most computers, and a lot people are lazy to type www.google.com in the address bar of their browser so they just directly type what they are searching for in the search box or address bar. And what results show up from their query? Results coming from MS Live search or Yahoo! search (in case they type on the Yahoo! toolbar).

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a Microsoft advocate, nor do I promote Microsoft Live search. It’s just that this search source is still relevant to your website in terms of traffic. The SERPs on both Google and Yahoo! based on Tambayan.ph is already good, but I still need to optimize it on Live Search. I’m not sure what the problem is but it seems MSN’s robots are not crawling my website properly. So now I turn to this tool…
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