This is just boring stuff about the blog (as opposed to a boring blog itself) so don’t feel gypped if you come away feeling you didn’t get your full dollars worth of entertainment.
Since switching to Bluehost, things have been pretty smooth. My only complaint thus far has been that their email system is doing a mondo crappy job of spam filtering. When I do try to configure their filtering system it does virtually nothing. Yahoo dropped the ball on several levels for me but their spam filtering was usually quite good.
The Updraft Plus auto-backups has been working great as has Dropbox. I get an email once a week to let me know that backups were successful and that, Crom forbid, should I ever need it I have the weekly backups stacked over at Dropbox. Big thumbs-up for Updraft…pay the money, get the pro version, its worth it.
Page hits seem to be fairly constant and thats always nice. According to Google Analytics, most of the hits this year are from the US.
1 United States 93.59%
2 Canada 1.40%
3 United Kingdom 0.82%
4 Sweden 0.51%
5 Germany 0.47%
6 China 0.40%
7 Australia 0.31%
8 Russia 0.27%
9 Norway 0.26%
Once you narrow it down to the US, the top ten states that stop by:
1 Texas
2 California
3 Florida
4 Pennsylvania
5 Washington
6 Virginia
7 Ohio
8 Montana
9 Illinois
10 North Carolina
Most popular post this year so far? This one on panic buying….mostly as a result of some aggregates link to it.
Donations to the Bunker Equipage Fund ( you know, that PayPal button on the top right menu everyone ignores?), 2015 YTD: $0.00 … it appears my plans for a poured concrete off-grid cabin will have to wait a while longer.
And thats pretty much it. Just a little behind-the-scenes data for those who are interested.
Ya know, I’ve never even realized there was a paypal button! I have your RSS feed saved, and when I see that a new post has been made, I just click it and the post loads… but there’s no paypal button.
I suppose at some point in the distant past I must have actually viewed the homepage, in order to get the link to the RSS feed; but who even knows what year that was.
Anyway, I’ll try to toss some coin your way on my next payday.
I closed my PP account a while ago 🙁
Wish there was another way to donate.
Oh, you can always send a few ounces of silver to my PO box. Or hot college coeds with daddy issues.
Glad to hear Updraft is working for you. As an infosec pro, though, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that having backups are a false sense of security unless you’ve actually tested them.
If you haven’t done so already, it is worth the piece of mind to do a disaster recovery exercise and make like you’ve had a catastrophic failure and go through getting everything back online.