2008 was an exciting year for MDSS — by far the biggest year since it’s creation…
Technically speaking, we started off with a new Virtual server in January that we crashed daily… Then in March, we obliterated the server w/ the “FreshFail” madness… I spent all day moving the site from the server to a new host – all while thousands of people were hitting the site to check out the FreshFail… We went way over our bandwidth allotment on this new host… About 2 months later, it was time to move, again (Just in time actually, since that host went belly-up and disappeared from the internet.) Today, we’re growing out of our current host…
Forum Stats
- 1,400 new members
- 118,750 posts made
- 6,766 threads created
- Most viewed thread: “A pic of my car at the dyno” (899,495)
- Most online users 628 (03-27-2008 10:32 PM)
- Top poster “jayunsplanet” (11,395)
- Most replied to thread “Thread of Picture Randomness *No 56k*” (6,744)
Entire site stats
- Visitors – 378,973 (191,561 uniques)
- Page views – 20,934,204
- Bandwidth – 1,560,060mb (1.56tb)
- Hits – 61,526,758
- Requests from Internet Explorer – 24,375,908
- Requests from Firefox – 7,648,702
- Request from Safari – 216,506
- Most active user (based on IP) Sudhir
Top 3 most active forum days:
- March 27th
- March 26th
- February 3rd
Top 3 most discussed threads:
- “Thread of Picture Randomness *No 56k*” (6,744 posts)
- “im a whore” (6,453 posts)
- “A pic of my car at the dyno” (2,927 posts)
Top 3 most viewed threads:
- “A pic of my car at the dyno” (899,498 views)
- “Thread of Picture Randomness *No 56k*” (122,282 views)
- “im a whore” (27,709 views)
The goal for 2009 is to double those figures =) Lots of new stuff is coming this year! Spread the word.
