Well the year is about up and done with already. We have seen Diaspora grow like crazy. Now 82 pods listed on podupti.me! A ton of code produced this year from the dev’s!

We have also seen the user base about double this year, check out diasp.eu’s nice estimate tool: stats

Its obvously been a hard end to the year with the loss of Ilya. But it looks like the Diaspora Dudes are healing and on track to get a beta out the door next year.

The diasp.org pod seems rock solid right now and we had a day with 80k hits and all was humming along, 2 dedicated servers seem the right combo for now. Think we are set for next year and think we will see a lot of users setup their own pods and migrate to pods closer to home. I am always happy to help folks setup pods! Its getting quite easy now with current distros like Fedora 16 and Centos 6.x

Thanks to all for donations, and for promoting Diaspora. I am excited for next year, for Beta and for lots of new users!

Have a good Holiday season and a Happy New year!

David

Well the year is about up and done with already. We have seen Diaspora grow like crazy. Now 82 pods listed on podupti.me! A ton of code produced this year from the dev's! We have also seen the user base about double this year, check out diasp.eu's nice estimate tool: stats Its obvously been a hard ...

Think its been a few months since an update… so.

Just like all other pods we are growing, growing fast as Diaspora is just about to go Beta this month things are speeding up with lots and lots of #newhere folks! I have been trying to friend and greet as much as I can.

To all that have donated, thank you! It has grown past the point I can email you all 1 by one with a personal thank you. Your support has us ad free and scaling to meet demand. Just last night I moved the DB to a 2nd server just for the DB, pod is way faster today! If you have not supported please consider it, its how diasp.org pod will continue to grow and survive, options for subscriptions even at $1 a month are very helpful. We are now on 2 dedicated servers, both the same: 8gig memory, 4 core cpu X 3.2ghz, 250gig drives. Backups run nightly and sync to the podupti.me server, and to a shared hosting platform, so I have 2 local and 2 remote backups every day.

You may have noticed I had to stop Piwik stats as it was slowing things down to much and could not handle the traffic well, I am using new relic for some stats and performance optimization. Some static content is on a Rackspace CDN now also. I am trying to avoid Amazon/Google items as much as I can as I know most users to not want their data there. I will look at other hosted Analytic options this week, I need something that can handle the traffic and do not want to have to scale stats servers for Piwik, think that’s a bad use of your donation money.

I have been using a new VPS provider for stats and other boxes for a few months now (wanted to put the DB on one, but realized that needed to be in the same data center as the main pod) and I have a small private pod running on a VPS with them with 512memory and its under $4 a month. they have nodes in France, Germany and the US. If you are thinking of your own pod check them out as an option. Aff link: https://secure.uptimevps.co/aff.php?aff=071

I chatted with Daniel Grippi yesterday and went over how I am scaling and it looks like diasp.org is ready for the beta traffic. Thanks for the time, Grippi!

I hope you are all having fun with Diaspora! I am on the road still, was in AZ now in NC, home next week… I just may share the photo of me as a pumpkin ghost that my neices and nephews dressed me as. If your not connected to me: http://dia.so/david

P.S. Some stats on new users on diasp.org:

• Week stating on 2011-09-05 , 1141
• Week stating on 2011-09-12 , 1293
• Week stating on 2011-09-19 , 3216
• Week stating on 2011-09-26 , 2461
• Week stating on 2011-10-03 , 1131
• Week stating on 2011-10-10 , 1616
• Week stating on 2011-10-17 , 924
• Week stating on 2011-10-24 , 697

Think its been a few months since an update... so. Just like all other pods we are growing, growing fast as Diaspora is just about to go Beta this month things are speeding up with lots and lots of #newhere folks! I have been trying to friend and greet as much as I can. To all ...

If you are a diasp.org user you have seen dia.so URL’s and can shorten any URL with it inside Diaspora.

I have offered others to use it, but no one has bitten, that’s ok! I did just launch a profile shortner on the main dia.so page. Idea is to simplify connecting with others via a central hub. Since it sets a cookie with your pod name it would be a nice central hub for things, all things! If you have created something or know someone that has that “needs to know” the users pod to work properly please suggest it!

If you are a diasp.org user you have seen dia.so URL's and can shorten any URL with it inside Diaspora. I have offered others to use it, but no one has bitten, that's ok! I did just launch a profile shortner on the main dia.so page. Idea is to simplify connecting with others via a ...

Well I spent sometime setting up Eclipse and the Android SDK. Then I remembered App Builder and wanted to give it a try. So I wrote this little ditty for podupti.me to promote Diaspora overall. Its just basic and I am sure some ideas will come to mind on how to make it better!

Click him to download the app! (creepy Diaspora Eyes!) Sorry I can not put it in the market yet, http://www.appinventorbeta.com is bugged and they are working to fix it!

Well I spent sometime setting up Eclipse and the Android SDK. Then I remembered App Builder and wanted to give it a try. So I wrote this little ditty for podupti.me to promote Diaspora overall. Its just basic and I am sure some ideas will come to mind on how to make it better! Click ...

Well we survived the doors of my host closing and are now on a dedicated server! Its humming along just fine.Still trying to get back some $ from the VPS jumps and loosing the clubuptime one. But people have been donating and signing up for the coffee subscription and helping out, Thank You!

The Diaspora dudes are plugging along and making things better! I got ejabberd xmpp server stuff set up in prep for them pulling that into the master, think its close.

I updated podupti.me just a bit, some looks and some back end code. I put the Translate script up on github.

This week I moved DNS over to dnsmadeeasy.com for ns since we have had 5 outages from namecheap and done dealing with DNS issues. Think I will stick to namecheap for domains and ssl certs for now.

Some stats for the pod!

Users in db: 23,660 (~15,000 are active in the last 2 months)

Database size: 2.6gb

Photo size: 12.3gb

Photo count: 124,396

Piwik overview last 30 days:

41363 returning visits

194430 actions by the returning visits

4.7 actions per returning visit

8 min 29s average visit duration for returning visitors

44% returning visits have bounced (left the website after one page)

Still working massive work weeks so not a ton of time to play and learn more ruby..

David

Well we survived the doors of my host closing and are now on a dedicated server! Its humming along just fine.Still trying to get back some $ from the VPS jumps and loosing the clubuptime one. But people have been donating and signing up for the coffee subscription and helping out, Thank You! The Diaspora ...

Here is the privacy policy of diasp.org, http://diasp.org/privacy-policy.html

My main connection, http://www.wholesaleinternet.com/

I store my pod database backups and photo backups at another host I use,  http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/PrivacyPolicy

Here is the privacy policy of diasp.org, http://diasp.org/privacy-policy.html My main connection, http://www.wholesaleinternet.com/ I store my pod database backups and photo backups at another host I use,  http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/PrivacyPolicy