It just turned 2018 for our many loyal visitors from New Zealand!
In less than an hour, it will be 2018 for our visitors in eastern Australia & Asia. Australia covers several time zones, so it will take a few hours for all of it to got through the new year.
6 hours to 2018 in India.
We've got more legitimate users from India, & S.E. Asia than we had since the turn of the century. Thanks to our new servers, & my custom double firewalls, we're still safer than ever though while allowing more odd ISPs in.
We've had some record-breaking hits of 18,000 hits in a single day during the past week, with an unheard of 19,000 hits one day!
We won't break 5,000,000 hits in a single year like we did in 2015. That was our busiest year ever! But we just surpassed hits for 2016, coming very close to as many hits in 2007... our previous busiest year. We've had years from 1994 to 2004 over 4.5 milion hits, but I don't have exact figures, records, or memory on them. I can say in all confidence though, that we never had 5 million hits in a single year before 2015. I would have remembered 5 million. Indeed, in the past if we got close to 4 million a year, it was to much for me or the servers to handle, or more than I could pay to handle that kind of traffic, so would have to cut back traffic.
Welcome India, & Taiwan! It's great to have you back with us, & have a Happy New Year!
Of course, in many parts of Asia, they don't celebrate the new year for a month yet... in China it's almost a month long holiday as big as Christmas. If you're ordering anything from China or nearby countries near the end of January, expect almost a month delay before they ship anything, because so many are away on vacation, holiday, or celebrating. There's a huge work slow-down, scale-back, or many places close for almost a month in the region for those holidays.
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