How fast time flies!
It seemed that I started the blog the other day and now I’ve been blogging for over 2 years now.
Some snapshots…
Over 1.8 Million Pageviews
Looking back at the traffic on a couple of days, it should have put the ‘Digg Effect’ to shame. The blog brought the server down many times and I’m thinking of moving to partial dedicated server soon.
Making money through blogging is seriously hard work. I couldn’t achieve the target of $5k. I know I’m undermonetizing this site so things can only improve. I brought a $2000 (costs Rs 1.05 Lacs in India) laptop, Apple MacBook Pro with my own hard earned money and over 33% of the contribution was with the revenue of this blog. 
500 Subscribers
Ask any blogger how difficult to achieve 500 daily RSS readers. That too for a personal blog.
I underestimated the difficulty of subscribers count and had a mental target of 800 by the end of the year. Hoping to end the next year on a healthy rate.
Things are looking bright for the blog and the good run this year should continue next year as well.
Looking back at the post I wrote for the first year anniversary, this one looks short and sweet. That one was a 1200 word (should be 1500 word essay before editing). I don’t have time and I’m on my way to catch the Train for the 10 day vacation (down south Tamil Nadu and Kerala) and visit my parents.
Seasons Greetings.
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15 comments ↓
Ashwin,
Congrats Brother!
You truly have a great site with lots of good information. I see that your “Private Torrent Tracker” is still very popular will WordPress allow you to put a Forum on this post so the page wouldn’t grow in definately?
Another idea is to maybe create a link so that all the old content could find a home in their own link so we don’t have to load everything all the time.
You have a great content site so keep up the great work.
Hari
hsigdel at hotmail dot com
Great going.
Yeah, like the above commenter says that page has loads of comments (more than what you see in a typical digg story page
) i was simply impressed.
You have a great writing style that’s both simple and attractive.
I know you’ll be reaching bigger heights in ‘08
Congrats ashwin
is that 5K$ / month ?
Congrats on your achievements, you have really grown with this great personal blog. I have been your regular reader for past 6-7 months now.
All the best for future and Happy new year.
BTW one thing I would like to see on this blog is increased posting frequency, I know its difficult for a personal blog to update daily, but still….
Happy Birthday to Ashwinr.com
Congrats
where’s the party
Congrats buddy. All the best for the future.
Feels great to be back online. Thanks a lot for the comments!
Hari Sigdel -
Thanks for the suggestion, I think I’ll install the Threaded comments mod so that that page loads faster.
btw your blog was down for quite a few days. did you change your host?
^^
Yeah, now on a VPS.
Congrats Ashwin….
At last your blog is up again.
2 years! That’s great. Great going dude. Keep those awesome posts coming. By demand: MORE MOVIE REVIEWS!!
Hehehe…. Nice to see your blog up and running.
Many thanks guys.
phreak0ut -
Sure. In some time you might see a surprise as well.
Ashwin,
Just discoverd the blog.
Excellent work.
“…That too for a personal blog”
But this looks like a technology blog.
Anyway, keep up the good work. And keep in touch.
^^
Thanks for the compliment.
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