32 Responses to “Just Creative Design Bursting Its Banks”

1. Alex Charchar on Aug 30, 2008 said:

   Wow Jacob, it’s an odd kind of compliment to your site, isn’t it?

   It’s also nice to see that you’re not one of those people who have a successful blog, but hides their stats away. The numbers are very impressive! Congratulations sir

   What as it in april that caused your stats to increase by more than double so quickly?

   Alex Charchar’s last blog post..To Infinity and Beyond!

2. MikeWhoBikes on Aug 30, 2008 said:

   I suppose these are the types of problems you want to have now, aren’t they? I hope all goes well with the upgrade.
   MikeWhoBikes’s last blog post..6 Best Design Pattern Sites

3. Jacob Cass (@justcreative) on Aug 30, 2008 said:

   Alex,
   I guess so, shows that we are growing anyway! It shows the massive leap from February to March!

   April stats was a combination of these two posts (4mb pages) viewed 200,000 times.

   http://justcreativedesign.com/.....resources/
   http://justcreativedesign.com/.....otographs/

   Mike,
   Within every crisis there is an opportunity… my mate calls it Christunity.

4. Vin Thomas (@vintom) on Aug 30, 2008 said:

   I would be interested to see which direction you go. I have considered fleeing from the shared hosting slums.

   Vin Thomas’s last blog post..iStockPhoto.com » Finding the Perfect Photo

5. Richard on Aug 30, 2008 said:

   Is that Awstats I see?!

6. Richard on Aug 30, 2008 said:

   PS, I can recommend A Small Orange (http://asmallorange.com) for hosting - we have a few virtual servers with them, and haven’t had any major problems with them for the 2 years we’ve been using them!

7. styletime on Aug 30, 2008 said:

   man your stats are very enviable, one day!?

   congrats on the #8 australian blog title!

   styletime’s last blog post..Twun-liners: Jon Phillips from none other than Freelance Folder

8. Andrew Kelsall on Aug 30, 2008 said:

   I only hope that my own site maybe has the stats that yours has one day, that’s why I host mine with a grid-service-based hosting plan, just in case!

   This can handle many hits and major traffic spikes…and survive Diggs…

   Andrew Kelsall’s last blog post..What do sheep and my blog have in common?

9. Peter on Aug 30, 2008 said:

   Hi Alex, wow man! Thats awesome! Loving this blog, its like the google of all things design-related on the net!

   Peter’s last blog post..A world gone mad

10. Peter on Aug 30, 2008 said:

    correction: Jacob! lol, am in weekend mode lol!

    Peter’s last blog post..A world gone mad

11. sean on Aug 31, 2008 said:

    wow, i’ve just started to look at the blogging game and that sort of traffic is amazing! well done - hope i can learn a thing or two.

    ps. i’m no graphic designer but i’d love any feedback on the look of my simple lil’ site.

    sean’s last blog post..Gee…

12. Brian Yerkes (@brianyerkes) on Aug 31, 2008 said:

    Jacob, have you ever considered hosting your image files away from your website’s server? This is definitely an option you should look at, as the image files being hit so much can cause your bandwidth problems…their are many free image hosting sites out there.

13. Brian Yerkes (@brianyerkes) on Aug 31, 2008 said:

    That’s weird, my “latest post” has stopped showing under my comment on your site…think it may be a problem since launching my re-design…hope you don’t mind a quick test Jacob! thanks

14. Andrew Kelsall on Aug 31, 2008 said:

    @Brian Yerkes,
    I’ve just had this problem, and I have been in contact with the CommentLuv pluggins author, Andy Bailey. His plugin has a 3 second-timeout limit for page load times. If you check out your sites load time on http://internetsupervision.com.....kes.com%2F you will see your load time is over 5 seconds after your blog re-design.

    Hope this helps Brian, if you need further assistance with this, I’ll be happy to explain further…

15. Kelly on Aug 31, 2008 said:

    Jacob,

    Congratulations on a problem everybody would love to have, and of course, WOW about being #8 in Australia. All at only 9+ months old! You’ll be off the charts by this time next year. Wonderful!

    Regards,

    Kelly

    Kelly’s last blog post..Happy Small Business Friday: The Merriment Post

16. Jacob Cass (@justcreative) on Aug 31, 2008 said:

    Vin,
    I believe I am heading for the semi dedicated at this stage but I am still awaiting reply from my hosts.

    Richard,
    Yeah awstats all the way Thanks for the recommendation.

    StyleTime,
    Set a goal and go for it! I have to laugh when I set a goal back in January to have 1000 subscribers by the end of the year. Blogging is addictive.

    Andrew,
    Every time JCD has hit the front page of Digg the site has been brought down but only for a few hours. I am not so concerned about it as it still registers around 50,000 hits while it is up but it would be nice to survive the digg effect… but without the price tag.

    Thanks for the tip on CommentLuv also.

    Peter,
    Thanks… being compared to Google, that is awesome!

    Sean,
    Had a quick look, it is like what you said… simple. Have you had a look at the many free themes available on the web?

    Brian,
    I did consider it however it is just another complication whenever you have to change hosts however if I ever choose to go to an Australian server I would have to do this as bandwidth here is so expensive in comparison.

    Kelly,
    Thank you and yeah it is quite impressive in just 9 months, particularly because I hadn’t even heard about blogging before (other than for a personal diary).

17. Qbrushes (@qbrushes) on Aug 31, 2008 said:

    Hi Jacob, I replied to your post on whirlpool regarding all this, check it out if you haven’t found a new home yet
    Qbrushes’s last blog post..Creative Doodles

18. Doug C. on Aug 31, 2008 said:

    I can help: send some of that traffic my way [wink].

    Doug C.’s last blog post..No More Cartoon Face

19. Kelly on Aug 31, 2008 said:

    Jacob,

    Me either! Up until about six months before I started I thought they were just diaries online. Why would anyone want to share their personal life like that.

    Then a coworker suggested I check out one he’d heard of (and of course I wasted an afternoon clicking from one blog to another, following links), and someone else said “You could do that,” and last August I started writing without a blog to see if I really felt like I could keep up, and boom!

    (My Mom still refuses to read my blog. She thinks all blogs are porn. *sigh*)

    Until later,

    Kelly

20. Jacob Cass (@justcreative) on Sep 1, 2008 said:

    Q Brushes,
    Thanks I have left a message on there also, I appreciate the help a lot. This plan is looking quite tempting if my current hosts can’t put together a VPS for myself or semi dedicated… They are so slow to reply, it is frustrating.

    Kelly,
    And “Boom” your addicted. Funny about your mother!

21. Kelly on Sep 1, 2008 said:

    Jacob,

    Totally addicted.

    She’s a corker. No amount of saying, “Ma, you’ve known me all of my years of life, how likely is that?” does any good.

    I thought they were just diaries, she thinks they’re just porn. (She’s not alone, either. Several friends of mine said that when I started MCE, which let my mother off the hook in my mind.)

    My daughter said this morning, “Wow, your friend who you wrote for is Very Important now, isn’t he? Did you help him get important?”

    I said, umm, no. I helped him ease his mind on the Grand Tour, though.

    Until later,

    Kelly

    Kelly’s last blog post..Happy Small Business Friday: The Merriment Post

22. Tracey Grady on Sep 1, 2008 said:

    Well done Jacob. I noticed that your blog ranks higher than Yaro’s too.

    @Andrew, I have noticed the same problem as Brian when commenting on JCD, sometimes but not all the time. Thanks for clarifying the reason why.

    Tracey Grady’s last blog post..Irresistible Websites Part Three: Textures

23. Brian Yerkes (@brianyerkes) on Sep 1, 2008 said:

    @Andrew,

    Thanks very much for the info. Not sure what I am going to do…possibly remove the video spot from the homepage…I already removed the “today, I’m reading” section…and that didn’t help much. Thanks for the info Andrew

    Brian Yerkes’s last blog post..Logo Design Case Study | Bayfront Bistro

24. Nick on Sep 2, 2008 said:

    Nice! If you’re still looking for hosting, I could help out
    Nick’s last blog post..Quarkbase

25. Jacob Cass (@justcreative) on Sep 2, 2008 said:

    Kelly,
    Grand tour eh?

    Tracey,
    Strange about the commentluv thing, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

    Nick,
    I believe I am going with Semi Dedicated with my current hosts Solid Internet but thank you.

26. Micah on Sep 3, 2008 said:

    I’m always impressed by people who can do a blog of this size on their own. Great work!

27. Dainis Graveris on Sep 3, 2008 said:

    You are doing great job - no wonder, there is nice outcome too! But yeah, some sexy stats you’ve got! Good luck in future!

    Dainis Graveris’s last blog post..48+ Greatest Adobe Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

28. Qbrushes (@qbrushes) on Sep 4, 2008 said:

    Hi Jacob, I’m curoius to how much they’re going to charge you because I might be intrested my self.

    Thanks

    Qbrushes’s last blog post..Top Photoshop Tutorial Sites to Check out

29. Jon on Sep 4, 2008 said:

    I’m confident with some aggressive caching, you could still host that on a shared hosting plan.

30. Jacob Cass (@justcreative) on Sep 5, 2008 said:

    Micah, Dainis
    Thank you.

    Qbrushes,
    It is $49.95 a month for semi dedicated hosting (only 3 users).

    Jon,
    This was the reason I changed, it just couldn’t keep up and I use caching.

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