After having run my own server for sneaker.org for now over 10 years, I have finally moved to a hosting service and decided to retire the old linux box that was hosting the site. It has served well, but its time has come. Dealing with the customer support of a hosting provider has certainly been frustrating, but not having to setup the server from scratch and not have to worry about keeping it patched will hopefully be a good tradeoff.
The site has been migrated, but all changes should in theory be transparent. If you find any problems, please report them to me. Thanks!
I am taking most of the summer off from Stanford to attend to personal and business matters and to do some traveling. As a quick update, I finally fixed the CSS for the site so that it makes better use of the browser real-estate. Still plan on doing a couple more changes at some point in the future. Other than that most of the site is pretty stable. There are some new posts in the Thought section. Have a good summer!
This post if for fellow bloggers. I am interested in finding out more about whether you would be interested in having a “blog-monitoring tool” which allows you to know when someone arrives on your site, is spending time reading your site and when they leave your site. To use the tool on your site would require you to only add about 2 lines of HTML in your blog template and would allow you to watch the action on your site either in a browser or by installing a windows system tray icon/visualization. Would you be interested in such a tool? Do you currently tail your logs? Or what other techniqus do you currently use to do this? Please respond by leaving a comment.
Before sneaker.org went dark over a year ago, a google search for my name would bring sneaker.org as the first hit on google. After the site went dark, the ranking for the site on google’s search fell dramatically (which is to be expected). After I restored the site, I’ve been observing the logs and the rankings on google (not scientifically, but just using random sampling). Recently I noticed the google bot making requests for pages and images which do not exist on the site any more. Presumably this will make it remove the dead links to those pages over time (and hopefully expunge them from the cache as well) and also raise the rankings of the live pages. Intriguing…
“Young Alumni” are defined as those alumni who have graduated, with their bachelor’s degree between 1994 and 2004. The award will be granted to an individual who has either attained exceptional accomplishment in the nominee’s chosen occupation or for distinguished service that brings honor to the recipient and the university during the first 10 years following the receipt of their bachelor’s degree. The contribution of service need not bring public acclaim, but may consist of important creative effort in organization and development having social or educational value. The Young Alumni Award need not be presented each year.
