It’s the start of another month and so it is time to look back on last month and see how The Geek Review did in working towards it’s goal of world domination.
May was a very good month indeed and continued the trend of hitting new pageview records. With 12,658 Visitors and 17,731 pageviews according to Google Analytics. The crazy thing is I have three different stat numbers Google Analytics, WordPress Stats, and Project Wonderful Ad views and none of the three agree with each other. According to WordPress stats I had 26,612 pageviews for May with sever day breaking the 1,000 page view mark but according to Project Wonderful I had several days where ad views topped 2,000. So I don’t know which one to believe but no matter which one you look at they all showed about the same increases over last month and I guess that’s what matters.
All these pageviews came at a price though. It seems that all that active hogged the resources of the shared server that I’m one and my host booted me off of it on to a temp server. If I don’t bring down CPU and SQL usage within 72 hours they’ll dump me. They did recommend that for the useage levels they saw that I should go with a dedicated server but that’s $100 a month instead of about $100 a year that I’m paying now. So instead I brought in WP-Cache this morning to handle serving pages. That should bring down the load as each page only has to be built once an hour if nothing changes on it. Hopefully this will take care of the CPU/SQL issues, well that plus the fact that pageview seemed to have dropped back to more normal levels over the last few days, cause I cant afford a $100 a month hosting bill. Haven’t heard back from my host yet, maybe they are waiting to see if the changes have the intended effect.
