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2011 in blogging
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Clustering For Mere Mortals’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 130,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 6 days for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 16 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 47 posts. There were 33 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 5 MB. That's about 3 pictures per month.
The busiest day of the year was April 6th with 1,420 views. The most popular post that day was Step-by-Step: How to extend a traditional Microsoft shared storage failover cluster into a multisite cluster with hybrid shared/replicated storage using SteelEye DataKeeper Cluster Edition.
How did they find this blog?
The top referring sites in 2011 were:
Some visitors came searching, mostly for sql 2008 r2 cluster, clustering for mere mortals, and windows 2008 clustering step by step.
Where did they come from?
- 86.6% The United States
- 10.6% Canada
- 1.5% Mexico
- 0.4% Costa Rica
- 0.1% Trinidad & Tobago
- 27.4% United Kingdom
- 10.3% Germany
- 6.8% France
- 5.7% Netherlands
- 4.8% Russia
- 40.7% India
- 6.0% Vietnam
- 5.1% Singapore
- 4.7% United Arab Emirates
- 4.7% Saudi Arabia
- 84.3% Australia
- 13.7% New Zealand
- 1.9% Fiji
- 0.1% New Caledonia
- 56.2% Brazil
- 10.3% Colombia
- 10.2% Argentina
- 9.0% Chile
- 6.2% Peru
- 33.5% South Africa
- 23.8% Egypt
- 9.2% Nigeria
- 8.0% Ethiopia
- 3.6% Cape Verde
Attractions in 2011
These are the posts that got the most views on Clustering For Mere Mortals in 2011.
- 1 Step-by-Step: How to extend a traditional Microsoft shared storage failover cluster into a multisite cluster with hybrid shared/replicated storage using SteelEye DataKeeper Cluster Edition 0 comments April 2011
- 2 Step-by-Step: Configuring a 2-node multi-site cluster on Windows Server 2008 R2 – Part 3 35 comments October 2009
- 3 Step-by-Step: Configuring a 2-node multi-site cluster on Windows Server 2008 R2 – Part 1 42 comments September 2009
- 4 Hyper-V pass-through disk performance vs. fixed size VHD files and dynamic VHD files in Windows Server 2008 R2 13 comments September 2009
- 5 Step-by-Step: Configuring a 2-node multi-site cluster on Windows Server 2008 R2 – Part 2 12 comments September 2009
See you in 2012
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We look forward to serving you again in 2012! Happy New Year!
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Who were they?
The most commented on post in 2011 was Microsoft now officially supports the iSCSI Software Target 3.3 in production
These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog: