On this day, I have gathered some data on Reasontalk, and some statistics about this place since we moved july 4th 2015 and introduced the forum as it is today.
Site statistics
Since we moved to this platform in July, the activity on the site has just kept on increasing. We went from ~560.000 pageviews in June 2015 on the old host, to 1.264.356 pageviews in December 2015. I decided to take a look at the costs, if we haven't conviced Lunesis to make the move:
Website Toolbox
- 500.000 pagesviews: $30/month
- Additional pageviews: $0.10 for 1000 pageviews
- Additional 764.356 in December 2015: $76.44
- Total: $106.44
Self-hosted
- Server: $20/month
- Added benefit of controlling everything down to the smallest detail: Free
- Total: $20/month
Visits: 724.885
Pageviews: 7.147.174
Files: 14.391.152
Hits: 21.680.541
Transfer: 254.92 Gigabyte (this is almost exclusively just text and images)
Busiest month: December 2015, 1.264.356 pageviews, 29.417 unique visitors, daily average of 40.785 pageviews
An ode to the users
Thank you all for using the forums and being this active! In my opinion, you guys have turned this place into the most friendly, constructive, helping forum I've seen. The most challenging part of moderating and managing this forum has been to remove the spam, and we do not get a lot of that, at all.
In a field that is otherwise known for elitism and a "matter of taste", this is truly the go-to place for questions, advice, feedback and even the occasional rant, without being hung from a virtual tree (as per usual in online forums). And we have all of you to thank for this!
Happy Birthday, Reasontalk!