It’s been an incredible few days in the life of Noonhat. Two talks in three days, a huge jump in sign ups, and a ton of thought provoking conversations (some of them were even over lunch).
Wednesday: Ignite Seattle was fantastic. It’s usually very good, and this time around it was even better than usual. We’re incredibly lucky to have it in Seattle. Huge thanks to Brady and the team of volunteers who
make it possible. Also, it sounds like Brady is planning to run Ignite events in other cities soon, keep an eye on his blog!
Thursday- Saturday: Gnomedex was incredible. For an overview, there is a ton of Gnomedex info on the blogs. I’ll just say that for me, the people really made it great. The last three days were filled with friendly, inspiring and thought provoking conversations. Thank you everyone!
In the last few days Noonhat had a lot more traffic than it ever has before. Look at these graphs:
Noonhat.com site traffic for August. The yellow line is the number of visitors. Update: For the 13th, 1005 visits, 1882 page views, according to awstats.
blog.noonhat.com traffic - Update: The top point there is 254 views according to WordPresss.org
And most importantly for everyone going to lunch, sign ups made a similar jump. Wow! Thanks everyone!
So far, my basic shared hosting plan [1] is holding up well. The site is responsive and working well!
We’ll see what those graphs look like tomorrow, though. ;)
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[1] Noonhat is hosted by a ‘shared 2‘ plan from WebFaction. Their customer service is very personal and efficient. (Disclosure: these are affiliate links, if you sign up via those links, it will help pay for Noonhat hosting.)
August 14, 2007 at 1:48 am
I’m glad to see the site is taking of.
I think it’s a brilliant idea and I can’t wait for it to be available in London, UK.
Remi.
August 14, 2007 at 8:09 am
Those graphs don’t mean a whole lot without a y-axis scale.
August 14, 2007 at 9:06 am
OK, fair enough. Without a y-axis, I can’t really make a scalability claim. And this wasn’t on the scale of a slashdotting or anything. It is a sudden multiplication of traffic though, and as a bit of a web newbie, I’m very happy that the site is still up. :)
I’ll update the post to add numbers of the Y-axis and do a separate post with more numbers.
August 16, 2007 at 7:26 am
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