Thursday, May 11, 2006 - www.foxite.com celebrate 5 year anniversary
Today marks the 5th year www.foxite.com has been online.
Update May 14, 2006: Here's some links to responses posted by various community
members:
WWW.FOXITE.COM CELEBRATE 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY - Thread ID: 95645 - Posted by:
Eric den Doop on 5/11/2006
HAPPY HAPPY FOXITE.... - Thread ID: 95658 - Posted by: mike castillo on 5/11/2006
HAPPY FOXITE - Thread ID: 95678 - Posted by: zakaria hamieh on 5/11/2006
Congrats Eric!! - Thread ID: 95680 - Posted by: Boudewijn Lutgerink on 5/11/2006
Weblog Comments
Eric's
Foxite turns 5! , Alex Feldstein
Congratulations Eric on the first 5 years, Andrew MacNeill
Erik Gomez' Weblog
The first version of the site was developed in Visual FoxPro 6. Soon after VFP7
was released to MSDN, the website's core engine was upgraded to VFP7. In December
2002, the website was updated to Version 3.
In March 2005, Foxite launched the first free Community Weblog service for Visual
FoxPro Developers called the
Foxite.COM Community Weblog. Version 4 was launched in August 2005. The site
was completely redesigned and rewritten.
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Version 4.0
August 2005 - October 2005
ASP.NET 1.1
Visual FoxPro 9
Version 4.1
November 2005 - Present
ASP.NET 2.0
Visual FoxPro 9 SP1 |
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Some statistics (as of May 10, 2006):
| # Members: |
30,194 |
| # Unique Visitors per day: |
11,500 |
| # Pageviews per month: |
1,130,000 |
| # Forum Messages |
92,780 |
| # Threads |
22,511 |
| Data Traffic per month: |
42 gigabytes |
Here's two pictures of old and current servers.
These boxes
were used from early 2002 to June 2005. Cassiopeia was a mail server as well
as the sql server used by archive search engine. Andromeda was, at that time,
the web server. Both machines were AMD 2000XP machines.
Puppis, Aquila and Vulpecula are the current servers. Puppis
is the mail server responsible for sending out the forum notification messages.
Aquila is the main web server running the
community weblog as well
as the main www.foxite.com website. This machine
is also running the external DNS. Last but not least: Vulpecula. This machine
is my Windows 2003 domain controller as well as the MP3 file server for my Xbox
Media Center system. See also:
http://weblogs.foxite.com/ericdendoop/archive/2006/04/05/how_i_work_eric_den_doop.aspx