One Year Old Today

Jasetaro.com is one year old today.

I launched this site on March 17, 2008 mainly because I’d out grown the laughable 5MBs of free web space provided by my ISP. I toyed around with free services like GoeCities, MySpace, Facebook and Blogger for a while and I wasn’t crazy about any of them. So after a couple of days of careful consideration this web site was born… The past year has been a combination of fun and frustration and I’ve learned a couple of valuable lessons.

1) Choose your web host carefully – when I launched this it was hosted by Yahoo Small Business Hosting… They were a disaster, in the roughly 4 months the site was hosted with then it was off-line 8 times because of server or database glitches. I moved the site to InMotion Hosting and, knock on wood, I haven’t had a problem since.

2) I you build it they will come – spammers that is… Roughly 95 percent of the comments posted here are spam. It’s never ending battle to keep these pages and the forum free of spam.

Anyway a little trivia, the majority of visitors come from the US, Canada, England and Australia. The top 5 stories of the past year were:

1. Sarah Palin’s Private E-mail Account Hacked
2. More Anti Israel Hate
3. Don Surber 52 Days, 52 Mistakes
4. Wall Street Journal: Just Say No to Detroit
5. Poll Question: Who Won The Vice Presidential Debate

The top 5 web browsers are:

1. Internet Explorer 7.0    35.48%
2. Firefox 3.0    23.14%
3. Internet Explorer 6.0    23.03%
4. Firefox 2.0    6.08%
5. Safari 525    5.03%

The top 5 Operating Systems used by visitors are:

1. Windows XP    65.66%
2. Windows Vista    16.83%
3. Mac OS X     8.26%
4. Windows 2000    4.65%
5. Linux i686    1.04%