Server News & 2005 SEATCupra.net Statistics

ZBOYD

Looking up at the stars!
May 19, 2001
9,468
15
Cheshire
www.seatcupra.net
Firstly the news is we have recently finalised our new dedicated server, this is now in the process of being built by our new uk based hosts, and everything should be moved over by the end of this month, there of course maybe some downtime involved, we're not sure as yet, but we'll try to make the transition as smoothly as possible.

Its very exciting and a powerful system we have gone for, to give us some growth, and breathing space, its cost us a bloody packet mind you :p but with the generous help of our sponsors etc, we've been able to cover these costs.

This has secured SCN at least for the forseeable future. :)

Other projects currently in the pipeline, to co-incide with the new server, will be a forum software upgrade to the all new vB 3.5, and were also currently rebuilding our website with a new fresh look, and more features, so a few nice things to look forward to this year, and with any luck SEAT will win the BTCC too. :D

Statistics

For the statto's amongst you, or just for idle interest, i've collated some stats for you, for the last 12 months or so on SEATCupra.net. 2005 certainly pushed all the right buttons it seems, to the point where we have of course had to evaluate our server requirements to cope with demand.

Top Stats.

Record online users at any one time 909 (30-06-2005 13:41)
Top poster [ibizacupra - 13748] go on Bill ;)

Most replied to thread [Worried about my good friend Chewbacca]
Most viewed thread [Worried about my good friend Chewbacca]
Who is this Chewbacca anyway. :shrug:

Most popular forum [Leon Mk1]

New threads made Jan05 to now. See graph in link.

2005 New Threads Stats - Monthly

New posts made, Jan05 to now. See graph in link.

2005 New Posts Stats - Monthly

Registrations, I've done a graph to show, you how many monthly user registrations there are to the forum, ive included the results from 2004 as well, as a guide to just how well, the forum has sustained its growth.

Registrations Jan 2004 to NOW

User Activity Statistics
this tracks the number of actual registered users active during each day of the year, this doesn't include guests.

Im not putting them all up as its done on a daily basis, but ive listed some of the busiest days of the past 6 months, starting with the single biggest busiest days.

October had the biggest interest this year it seems, seeing over a thousand of you on these days listed. Must of been something interesting happening then. :)

October 10, 2005 1036
October 03, 2005 1019
October 17, 2005 1017
October 11, 2005 1013
October 18, 2005 1013


May 16, 2005 958
June 08, 2005 930
July 17, 2005 978
August 15, 2005 966
September 21, 2005 976
November 07, 2005 994
December 13, 2005 977

On average though, over 900 of you a day, take a look at SEATCupra.net, with less at weekends, averaging in the 700s.

Christmas day not surprisingly was the least busy period of the past 6 months or so, but even still, 522 of you managed to drag youself in front of the PC at some point that day. :whistle: And 662 of us managed to be online on New Years Eve. :p

Now our server traffic statistics the big numbers. :p

These figures are for the period Jan 1st 2005 to Dec 31st 2005

Unique visitors - 671834
Number of visits - 1435649
Pages - 52562272
Hits - 158938254

Bandwidth- For the past 12 months total, SEATcupra.net shifted

1999.7GB :blink: yes thats nearly 2 Terrabytes :p

That is an average of over 160GB per month.

To take last years busiest month as an example, October.

The average daily statistics are as follows:

Number of visits: 4193.45
Pages: 182129.65
Hits: 497456.26

Other possibly interesting :p stats

Our number one referring search engine is of course, Google :D

77% of you use Windows
20.8% use unknown Operating systems. :blink:
1.7% of us definately use a Macintosh ;)
and 0.1% use Linux definately.

70.4% use Microsoft Internet Explorer to view SEATCupra.net
19.2% use unknown browsers.
8% using Firefox,
1.1% using Safari on the Mac
0.5% Opera
0.4% Mozilla
0.1% Netscape

Fun reading huh [B)]

m0rk, Martyn, feel free to edit if ive cocked it up :D
 

Ant FR

Full Member
Feb 15, 2005
2,861
0
Kent
wow,

only 1.7% of us use MACS i thought it would be more than that, so only 1.7% of us see it in top quality .....lol

As for those trafic stats, blimey, i think the only way you could get to those figures is if you changed the site name to www.nakedladies.com

now heres what you want to do, you got a very succesful site, hows about charging us all £20 each, .......lol

well i know i will keep spreading the word.

I know in the old Days The CTR owners site used to have big figures like that, but they had severe problems with down time.

I can honestly say i cannot remmeber the last time the site was down, which can only be seen as a huge credit to the Admin peeps.

WELL DONE
 

Johnsey

SNAFU
Dec 23, 2003
912
1
Here & There
www.google.com
Well done Admin! :clap: Very impressive figures and a great place to be.

I'd hazard a guess at the Chewie thread being responsible for the October peaks too...
As for who Chewie is: he's the world smallest scouse wookie :D
 

Chewbacca

Full Member
Jun 28, 2005
118
0
Birmingham
:wave: hello im chewbacca & some know me some dont but as my lover johnsey said i am the smallest scouse wookie so you all better watch your alloys ;) only kiddin....

good work guys :clap:
 

GrayT

I'm Old
Jul 7, 2004
812
5
London
Superb job, very interesting stats and as others have said it is a remarkable site with very few glitches and all the better for being free. All the founders, admins and moderators should be very proud.

...Oh and congratulations to whoever took the Chewie thread past 6,000 posts - that thread sustained the biggest load of drivel on a car forum I've ever known...and yet someone keeps it from being purged each month...maybe the originators of that thread should chip in to the new server? :D
 

Johnsey

SNAFU
Dec 23, 2003
912
1
Here & There
www.google.com
GrayT said:
Superb job, very interesting stats and as others have said it is a remarkable site with very few glitches and all the better for being free. All the founders, admins and moderators should be very proud.

...Oh and congratulations to whoever took the Chewie thread past 6,000 posts - that thread sustained the biggest load of drivel on a car forum I've ever known...and yet someone keeps it from being purged each month...maybe the originators of that thread should chip in to the new server? :D
Yeah, it's all Bizaman's fault! Come on Dan, dig deep into your sky rocket and contribute towards the running costs :whistle:
 

bizaman

I am The BOFH
Feb 23, 2005
429
0
Satans Layby
bizaman.blogspot.com
I am responsible for the chewie thread :runaway: :hide: thought i had better own up before i got judas'd!!

Hrehehehe sorry about that guys but its all a good craic ay!!!

Keep up the good work mods.
Chewie is the smallest bloke you will ever meet at 2foot tall!! lolol!!!!

Anyways i am off before i get banned or something :hide:

Dan
 

flashbsd

Guest
nice one guys, yeah i use solaris at work, shows i've got nothing better to do! lol :)

wouldnt be suprised if i was the 20%!

ppfffttt downtime, i dont think i've ever not been able to get onto the site, except the tsunami time i think. [B)]
 

m0rk

sarcasm comes free
Staff member
May 19, 2001
27,787
33
Clanfield, UK
ZBOYD said:
m0rk, Martyn, feel free to edit if ive cocked it up :D


Forgot to tell you that won't include data from SYW, For Sale ads, Local meets - all of which get a purging.

Normally 5-800 Threads/months
 
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