I finally got around to purchase a stronger server and move this website there. During the past year, traffic has more then trippled (mostly due to the free wallpapers and this stitched image (some days in excess of 5 Million hits due to the Zoomify player).

I have spent the past week setting up the server and optimizing it a bit, so it can handle the traffic being generated by this website. Today was the first day after I pointed the DNS (Domain Name Servers) to this new webserver. Amazingly the server doesn't even break a sweat, even during times of relatively high load.

This is good news, since I am working on another image that is much bigger then the Machu Picchu Picture. Finally I will also have time to write some more tutorials and most importantly work on my huge backlog of pictures and upload some new stuff.

The new server feels pretty quick, which is good news since this is the first web server I am administrating and there is so much to learn (especially in the area of performance tuning).

Hm. My database is pushing over 4 queries per second now and its almost Saturday midnight. Seems a bit excessive considering that I cache most pages (maybe 2 queries per page). Not that it would make a dent in the Server but I am getting curious how this site can push millions of database queries per day.