Hi Hemmy readers,

Currently I’m transferring www.hemmy.net to a semi-dedicated server at Hostgator so there won’t be any updates for these few days. This is to cater the increasing traffic since my account on my old host has been suspended many times for consuming too much cpu resources. Well till then, thanks for visiting this site and if you have any suggestions for improvements just drop them in the comments.

Update: This is on the new server. Some comments have been lost during the transfer so I’m leaving that as it is. Updates will resume soon.

Happy New Year to all Hemmy.net’s readers. Another year has passed and its always a new beginning with new resolutions. Updates has been slow lately due to much difficulty in juggling time between work, blogs, friends and other activities. Hopefully this year, I will be able to sort better time management allocation. Also thanks to those who still regularly read Hemmy.net after the long absence of updates and lastly, I hope everyone enjoyed their new year celebration!!

Sorry guys but there probably won’t be any updates these few days. Home internet is down because telephone line is not working. This site was also suspended for high cpu usage, so I still need to optimize the php scripts and still working on a viable solution. Will be posting updates once the problems are solved.

Latest Update: I’m upgrading to the high cpu plan on my webhost www.bluehost.com. Will be updating as usual until the upgrade takes place in the near future. The upgrade would probably take around 24 hrs for the domain name to propogate through the DNS.

Sorry guys for the lack of updates recently, had been preparing for my year end trip and things are going pretty hectic.

I will be away from the 1st to the 10th November. Anyway Happy Halloween and Holidays to all the readers too. Do come back to check for new updates when I come back.

A day ago, Hemmy.net posted an article about ‘Creative Advertisements Around The World‘. Seemingly enough clones seemed to spring up just few hours later where two examples would be eglobe1 and 2loop. Both copied the exact pictures and wordings.

While the article got to the front page of digg and reddit, the cheapass webmaster also known as onion82 at www.eglobe1.com posted to the big sites at www.fark.com and www.i-am-bored.com. Well, anger was the first emotion to be released but calmly later, it was realised that something had to be done bout this in a rational manner. This is the email which I had with Drew Curtis at www.fark.com.

Katana: This guy at at the front page of www.fark.com just ripped off my article.Can you help me do something like delete his link or something?

Drew Curtis: I changed the url. Sorry about the trouble, hope you get to kick that guy’s ass someday

Katana: Thanks a lot!!

Drew Curtis: anytime man

I owe him one. Well the webmaster at www.i-am-bored.com has not replied yet.

The webmaster at www.i-am-bored.com has replied as well, Thanks as well

Wow, that is really lame. You should contact the owner of that site
and let them know you don’t appreciate it. I will change the link to
point to your page.

But this is the way to tackle those using cheap tactics. The next time I’m going to write a long article, I will definitely watermark the pictures first. Watermarking doesn’t always mean taking pictures and make it your own but it is also to prevent theft like this. This is a valuable lesson to be learnt definitely.

Hemmy.net will be taking a break till Wednesday, July 19 2006. Sorry guys for the inconvenience. Do come back later to check for new updates.

This month has been a meteoric growth. Pageviews totalled almost 500k with 243k unique visitors, creating a new record for the sixth month of Hemmy.net. Technorati rankings broke through below 10k and next month’s aim for Hemmy.net is to achieve a Technorati ranking of below 3k. The traffic is a temporary surge because a lot of visitors came in from fark and ebaums world. However the number of backlinks obtained from the traffic was definitely invaluable. Thanks again for all those who visited this site.

Sorry guys, currently transfering my website to bluehost webhosting for more bandwidth capacity so website might not be updated for a while. Please do visit back again later.

Every month I will be posting my traffic results as well as rankings. I forgot to post it in April so this is the results for May. This month has seen another huge surge in traffic. Some of them came from digg, forums, stumbleupon and blogs. I am pretty happy with the results, however bandwidth has become more of a problem for this site. I’m sure some of you has seen the bandwidth exceeded message few days ago. My host has told me that my site cannot be sustained under the shared hosting plan of theirs because it has consumed too much of their cpu resources so I am considering moving my site to bluehost, a quite popular US host which might take quite a hassle. Anyway thanks for the sites that linked to me and I will work hard to make this a better blog. Thanks everyone.

Also sorry for those who had suggested new articles which didn’t get replied (No mail received on my side when I tested it). I just realised that the settings on my hosting server has disabled php sendmail for quite some time. I’m still working on this one. Should be up within a few days.