Migration to a new server

I have completed the migration to a new server. Both servers are hosted in Hetzner.

Old Server: DS 3000
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Dual Core
RAM: 2 GB DDR2
Storage: 2 x 400 GB SATA II

New Server: EQ 4
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-920 Quadcore
RAM: 8 GB DDR3
Storage: 2 x 750 GB SATA-II HDD

Both servers have 2TB transfer per month and both cost €50 per month.

I have already noticed that the scripts to regenerate the pages on scaryideas.com are running much faster.

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Firefox winning by a big margin

Scaryideas.com browser percentages for June '09

Firefox is winning on scaryideas.com by a huge margin, 67%. Leaving Internet Explorer with just under 13% and very close behind Safari at 10%. Firefox’s large lead on scaryideas.com is probably because the main audience are design orientated people who would use Firefox’s plug-ins rather than home or corporate users who may stay with IE.

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Claiming my blog on Technorati

This post is simple to claim my blog on Technorati. I thought I would be able to add a HTML file like Google and Yahoo use, but no, a blog post seems to be the only way.
Technorati Profile

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I have setup a personal twitter account @justhour, my other account is @scaryideas is going to be mainly for the scaryideas.com feed and related stuff rather than being my primary account.

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Data traffic from my site

I started hosting my own video content after YouTube disabled my account. I was transferring about 5GB per day on average when I host the site and image content. I thought the video hosting would increase the traffic rates by a factor of 10, but luckily it hasn’t. Currently I’m transfering about 10GB per day, only double the previous level. The hosting agreement allows 2TB per month with an additional charge of €29 per TB over that, plenty of head room for the moment.

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