Erik’s Blog: Board Shorts and Business Suits

No, I haven’t left the blogging game, just been super busy trying to manage everything I get myself into. This includes new hosting, revamping sites, managing bloggers, patents, domain names, working full-time, planning wedding, etc, etc, etc, blah, blah blah.

Servers
First up, servers. I’ve decided to test out some new servers that can withstand more traffic, and more bandwidth. This means transferring blogs and making sure everything is set-up properly, time CONSUMING!

I needed these new servers because my traffic was growing steadily and I was consuming too much bandwidth for a shared hosting account. Aloha Update was dugg three times to the front page and the site was down for hours at a time until all my sites were pulled from the shared server and put on a super slow, “you’re being punished” server.

I estimated the loss in traffic from the week long ordeal at just under 15,000 unique visitors. For me that’s a lot of uniques.

So I took the plunge and am testing a server setup that costs me 10 times what I was paying previously. Eeek! But not too worry, the increase in traffic that I’ve seen from the diggtastic craziness will hopefully help offset this new cost.

Aloha Update
After chatting with Yaro a few weeks back I’ve decided to make some adjustments to Blogtown Press. One of those adjustments is a revamp of Aloha Update. I’ve been working feverishly into the night on a new layout and format that I hope to have ready for prime time in the next week. (We’ll see how the evenings treat me here in Tucson.)

Moving Forward
Although I’m not making the cover of Business 2.0 or finding myself in wikipedia yet, I like to think that I’m moving in a solid forward direction, no matter how slow it is. I’ll continue to keep you all updated with progress, without letting the cat out of the bag early, but not keeping you in the dark either.

I don’t want to be one of those black magic internet entrepreneurs. The ones where you’re never quite sure if they’re really making money or just BS’ing their way to making money. I’ll tell you when I fail (if) and when I succeed.