Invisible Move

The website is moving to a new shared server in 3 days, but you shouldn't notice any change if everything goes well. It's still the same service provider, but they're moving this site to a newer, more powerful server. Since the site performed well on the old system, I expect it to do very well on the new system.

Any issues would appear late Friday or early Saturday (the 18th).

Update: The server transfer is taking quite a long time and my account is way down on the list. It may be Monday or later before my site is moved.

Update2: The move went well except for some minor warning issues that seem to have now been fixed.

Today's Downtime

The site was experiencing some abnormal server load and was brought down for most of the day. I'm currently working with my webhost to make sure the issue is correctly resolved. I'm not in a position to afford my own space, so I have to share space on a physical machine with other sites. The problem appeared to be a database issue and not a bandwidth issue, so things should hopefully be fine now.

EDIT: I've also fixed a problem with downloads not working.

New ArsClip for a New Year

Version 4.6 of ArsClip has been officially released. Most of the latest changes in this are bug fixes. The notable new features since v4.3 are Pinned Clips and customization for middle click and popup colors. For those that rarely reboot their system, there is an important memory leak fix in this version - so it is highly recommended to update.

1 Million Program Downloads

While some sites manage this milestone in a few days or even hours, it has taken this site a bit longer to reach this tally. The actual count since 2005 is closer to 1.2 million program downloads, so I missed the real achievement date and data before 2005 is not available.

To put this into perspective:
- the largest file on the website is less than 2 MB in size
- there are ~13 thousand unique visitors a month
- 20 GB of data are download every month (over 800 MB a day)
- over 1500 GB of data has been download since 2005

Single Page Updates

A long time ago, I added an RSS feed for the entire site. It was a "simple" way to get automatic notifications about new posts on the site. At the time, there was no Public Beta section so the only updates were mostly just new program updates.

With the new Public Beta section, there is a lot more activity on the site and the RSS feed shows now shows a lot more activity. For those that only want updates for single page, I've updated the "RSS Feed" page with new links to ArsClip, Rename Master, and MouseWrangler. In a future site update, I plan on adding a "Subscribe to Page" link on each page.