Tras días de pruebas he planificado para esta noche la mudanza de la página web de Spaniards.es a los nuevos servidores de Rackspace Cloud. Esperemos que todo vaya bien y que no tarde mucho. Saludos.

Last Sunday Elia and her husband visited Paso Robles. We tooke them for lunch at the park and then we went to a couple of wineries: Castoro Cellars and Eagle Castle. Elia and her husband are very nice and we had a lot of fun with them. 

Eagle Castle Wineries

Besides the Paso Robles wine tour, Elia wanted to interview me, regarding the Spaniards.es project. The interview was audio recorded and now she has published it on her website (the interview is in Spanish). Hope you like it!

Like in 2006, Spaniards.es has kept growing day after day in 2007. The number of users, the number of posts and comments... everything keeps growing. But also the bandwith used and the resources used by the server.

It was back in March when I had to move Spaniards.es from a shared hosting to my first ever dedicated server. Everything has been wonderful since then. Now I feel I'm going to need a second server pretty soon, although I hope I can stay with only one for a while.

Here are some numbers of last year (from Google Analytics):

• 1,042,009 Visits
• 676,111 Absolute Unique Visitors
• 5,981,264 Pageviews
• 5.74 Average Pageviews
• 00:06:34 Time on Site
• 52.63% Bounce Rate
• 64.55% New Visits

Drupal content:

• 7,752 nodes
• 136,500 comments
• 7,792 users

Bandwith usage:

• 340.81 GB

One more time, I would like to thank all those wonderful users, moderators and interviewers who collaborate with Spaniards.es and make it possible.

Let's keep growing!

What a wonderful command :) Of course "Spaniards.es" is the Apache log on Spaniards.es web server. I have never tried that before. I knew about tail --follow, which I love. But since 90% of the requests are additional requests generated everytime anybody visits the page (images, css, etc), following the whole log is kind of boring.

So usign grep -v one can remove anything reffered from the server itself. Thus, only direct requests and requests comming from other websites will show up in the output.

Now that's fun. I can see Google Bot hitting my server once every two secconds and Yahoo Slurp doing the same every now and then. I can see every time anybody searches something in Google and follows the link to Spaniards.es.

I love it!

Dado a las numerosas polémicas y al estrés que está suponiendo administrar la web durante los últimos días, he decidido ponerme en huelga como administrador de Spaniards.es.

Como en toda huelga, hay que cumplir con unos requisitos mínimos, así que restringiré mis funciones a administrar el servidor y a mantenerlo actualizado y funcionando. Por lo demás, ni tengo ganas de participar en los foros ni de moderar a nadie.

A ver que pasa.