On Sunday the 18th of October “boche.net” turned one year old.
Jason Boche thought to mark the occasion he’d post some interesting blog stats:
Some statistics related to this blog during the past 365 days:
- 224 posts
- 195 Virtualization related
- 30 Non-virtualization related (typically other technologies and a few personal)
- Average of one post per every 1 1/2 days
- Using a very conservative estimate of 2 hours spent writing each post, total time spent writing:
- 448 hours
- 19 days
- Almost 3 weeks
- Doesn’t include any lab time
- 179,389 Unique visitors
- Generating 5,399,277 Hits
- Consuming 71.36GB Send (upload) traffic
- Costing $1,199.88 in bandwidth
- Plus another $1,800 estimated in rack electrical/cooling
- 743 legit comments (approved)
- Average of 2 legit comments per day
- 7,873 spam comments (blocked and IP banned)
- Average of 22 spam comments per day
- 90 Tags
- 14 Active WordPress plugins
- 7 Inactive WordPress plugins
- 4 Sponsors
- VMPeople.net
- Hyper9
- vWire
- TrainSignal
- 1 Theme change
- 3 VMware exams passed
- VCDX Enterprise Administration exam
- VCP4 exam
- VCDX Design exam
- 2 VMworlds attended
- VMworld Europe 2009
- VMworld 2009
- 7th most popular virtualization blog as rated by the VMware community
- 1 vCalendar idea
- 1 vExpert award
- 0 VMware NFR licenses received
- Out of a dozen or so requests
- Over the course of 2+ years
- Established about a million virtualization industry
- Contacts
- Friends
- Acquaintances
- Through
- Blog
- VMworld
Congrats Jason on your first year of blogging at boche.net! We hope your next year is just as good!
Jason also sent a special thankyou to other bloggers and VMware virtualization community members for sharing your time and knowledge and continuing to inspire him to do the same.
