It’s been almost 10 months since I moved my website here and I’ve been looking at the stats. It beats tidying up the flat which I should be doing.

Unique site visits (which I think is the most useful metric) seemed to peak in May at 7000 sites and since then has been around 6000 sites per month. How does this compare with other people’s websites?

My top search terms are pretty consistently for the C++ containers, iterators and strings cheat sheets I wrote years ago. I should restyle them but I don’t want to break the links people have made. There’s no hits on anything wacky like wisdom teeth self extraction and my hyperlinked C++ grammar has never got the notice it deserved. I have had a few hits for wm_delete_window, Thinstation and invalid module format though (Google for them if they interest you).

Oh and that big spike in KBytes this month is an image of Ubuntu I hosted here when I couldn’t work out an easier way to get it to a customer.

The SliceHost virtual machine has served this all up smoothly and reliably. I did upgrade to more RAM (512B) as I was thrashing the 256B slice, but since then I’ve had no problems and have been very happy with them.

Here’s to the next 10 months of LinuxSoftware.co.nz!

Caught up with Tim at Wok’n'Noodle. Had the always delicious Thai Style Vegetarian Noodles. (With tofu, cabbage, carrot, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, bok choi and spring onion).

Tim has been looking at setting up a website. I’ve sold him on how cool SliceHost is. Yes it is more expensive than just a virtual domain, but it is great to have complete control over the whole operating system, and good learning too.

I’ve done my bit for the Fedora project too. Tim is also going to run Fedora 8 as well, that way we are both talking the same language (rpm, yum, service, /etc/sysconfig).

I demo’ed the SliceManager and answered how to do a few things with yum.
Q: How do you update the distro with yum?
A: “yum update”

Q: How do you search for a package with yum?
A: “yum search packagename”

Q: How do you see all the packages which are installed?
A: “rpm -qa”

Q: How do you see all the files which were installed with a package?
A: “rpm -qil packagename”

I think he’ll find it very easy.

I gave him a couple of hints about how I secure my systems too, but I don’t think I’ll blog those .