A quick look at my traffic over the last month does a good job of illustrating the benefits to moving to a server that can actually respond at a decent speed:
The day I moved is pretty obvious — the 7th of June. Prior to that, I was averaging 921 page loads a day, and it was trending downwards. Once I switched to the new server, things suddenly improved, and until the past few days, I was averaging 1,490 page loads a day. Nowhere near any of the big sites on the net, but still not too shabby.
So, once again, many thanks to Rain City Story for hosting me!
That spike over the last few days (up to 2,820 page loads yesterday) is almost entirely due to people looking for pictures of the Fremont Solstice Parade, arriving either from Google searches or links to my picture pages from other sites. Lots of pervs out there looking for pictures of naked bikers, would be my guess…and good for them!
I wholeheartedly approve of pervs in most situations — moreso when it drives a traffic spike to my site. ;)
“We Care A Lot” by Faith No More from the album Never Mind the Mainstream (1987, 4:05).