WealthEsteem.org :: Psychology of the Deal

Wow. Over the weekend we crossed 1000 unique visitors threshold for September. That’s a fantastic growth rate for this blog without promotion.

Some September statics
16.6% of the page-view traffic comes from search engines. Nearly 20% of that search engine traffic is from Tony Robbins searchers. Another 15% of that traffice is looking for Steve Navra, NavraInvest Ltd or Chris Batten.

There are over 100 IP addresses which have visited the site at least 5 times in September.

So please comment below if you are willing to help promote the blog (especially if you don’t know how) or have suggestions. You can start with a vote for my site at blizg. You can also rate the blog on bloghop (see the menu-bar links on the right).

We (and all the others on this server) have recently been hammered by bots (and spiders) indexing and otherwise slurping this website. After a group of them from NameProtect grabbed 15 megabytes of bandwidth I decided to do something.

After many false starts and misadventures I believe I’ve set things up so bad bots will get themselves automatically banned. If I have broken anything please let me know.

For those of you who are intersted I grabbed ccisecirity.php from and implemented as scaled-down version of IP banning via .htaccess

It’s kinda cool.

We’ve upgraded to WordPress 0.72 beta1 to fix a couple of bugs that were annoying. As usual let me know if anything broke that I didn’t notice

If you can still see this page, congratulations, but you may not for long. DNS is the way the internet turns www.wealthesteem into an IP address. Anyway our nameserver in the US is down as is our secondary name server. So until they come back we and the other sites served from here are invisible.

If anyone with a static IP address and a nameserver would like to swap secondary (or tertiary) nameserver duties let us know via email at paulz@wealthesteem.org.

We required a security update to the blog software. A transmission glitch meant the server gave blank pages for the last 4 hours. Sorry about that.

It should be fixed now. As usual let us know if there is a problem.

I am trying to get a email notifier working for Wealth Esteem. That will allow guests to be notified when an entry is made here.

Is this something you would find useful? Comment below.

Someone tried to hack the site tonight. I don’t know whether to be angry or flattered. So if you show up one day and it seems like I’ve moved into the porn-biz you’ll know:
1) I’m 0wn3d by script kiddies (i.e. the site has been defaced).
2) Don’t hire me as your IT security consultant
Seeing as I don’t do any IT consulting anymore that should be enough warning.

That leads me to reinforce the message, this site is really for my own and your amusement. Therefore it is in constant flux and doesn’t really get a lot of “systems” attention. While I do wish I could find out what is slowing the computer down, I’m not putting a lot of resources into the server.

This poor server seems to be struggling a bit. So it will be replaced in the next week. During that time and for about 1 hour the site will be off-line. I’ll post an update before it happens but I don’t know how much notice you’ll get.

In the meantime thanks for persevering with the poor response times.

Surprisingly I added a log analyser and there are a few of you reading this.

Leave some feedback gang. You don’t have to register or leave and email address.

As some of you know, my site is not about community building. Go visit the Somersoft Forum or chat room to meet some wonderful people. I also like the Freestyler Network for meeting like minded people in the real world.

This site is more a journal or diary. A stream of consciousness philosophy if you will. Therefore the PostNuke CMS which ran the site was overkill. It’s a very good open source Content Management System however.

Also the layout gave visitors the impression that I wanted them to register or somehow be accountable.

Therefore I installed new software — b2 – a classy weblog tool. Hopefully it will be a bit easier on my server and less intimidating to readers.

Wish me luck.

All posts in the old forum will be ported to the blog over the next few days. The blog will continue to be hosted on my server. I may have intermittent outages, but what better way to know about them?