General stats:

In 6 years the forum have had 78,067 posts, in 15,824 threads, submitted by 9,834 registered users (plus countless of anonymous users). The forum has grown considerably the last year with more than 6,000 threads and 34,000 new posts. Also a big welcome to the more than 4,000 new registered users.

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Most active boards (last 12 months):

General Troubleshooting, Curious About DreamHost? and Beginner’s Forum continues to be the most popular forums, while Beta Testing, Promotion and E-Commerce remains pretty dead.

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Most active users (last 12 months):

rlparker and Raz2133 have both written more than 2000 post the last 12 months, which brings them right to the top on the all time Most Active Users chart. wholly and norm1037 are also newcomers on the the chart.

Most active threads (all-time):

14 of top 20 most active threads has been created within the last 12 months. As always a bit of controversy creates the longest threads…

Congratulations to all the forum users, and let us hope that the next year will bring as many helpful, interesting and controversial discussions as we’re used to!

Oh, didn’t I mention? I got engaged! Oh yeah, I did mention. But did I mention how? Well, this is how! I added google.com to the DreamHost DNS servers (um, maybe you noticed if for some reason you were using lynx to go to Google directly from our servers back around May 16th) and set up a fake Google website! Then I changed the picture at the top and changed our home DNS servers to be DreamHost’s (instead of Earthlink’s DSL like they normally are). So if you went to www.google.com from our house, you got the fake version I’d set up on our servers! Mwah hwah hwah hwah!

Well, “Tweeny” goes to Google a lot, so Saturday night I switched it over and next thing you knew, Sunday morning she was all “How much did you have to pay Google?!”… check it out, I archived it at:

http://www.groo.com/google.com/

Aren’t I romantic? And a huge nerd? Worse than those guys in line for Star Wars that Triumph the Insult Dog interviewed? Probably.

When you clicked the header it searched “Tweeny, will you marry me?” in Google…

…and the top result was of course Josh’s marriage proposal.

Barry Schwartz from Search Engine Roundtable kind of did the same thing a year later… And in case you wonder… Both girls said yes!