Today is a monster milestone for Infobarrel.com as we finally surpass the 10,000 unique article mark!

We launched July 31st 2008, and didn’t crack the 1000 article mark until late March 2009, but the site is growing at an amazing rate.  Hopefully six months from now we will be blogging about reaching the 100,000 article mark!

Here are some fun facts about InfoBarrel and where it stands as of today:

Official 10,000th article: Hitachi 18V

Total Members: 4283

Average articles per user: 2.33

Average articles per active user: 10.24

Total written words across all articles: 5,070,365

Total Comments: 3042

Comments per user:  0.71

Comments per active user: 4.39

Current Alexa Ranking: 18,267

Current Technorati Rating: 1993

There you have it ladies and gentlemen, over a years worth of hard work has led to this milestone.  I’m excited to see what the future has in store for us.  Keep up all the fantastic work, this place wouldn’t be where it is today without your hard work and contributions!

Hey everybody,

I just wanted to chime in here and let everybody know that after we moved servers last week, we had an issue with our mail server which resulted in no emails coming through to us.

We apologize for the issue, and hope it didn’t cause anybody any problems.  Aside from the mail not working, the server has been running great and we are close to reaching numerous milestones which we are all really excited about here at Infobarrel.com

So, moving foward you should no longer notice any issues sending us any emails.

If you wrote a blog post and wanted to get in on the Blog Buzz we started, please re-email us!
Thanks!

Ryan

Hey everybody,

Over the last month we were starting to run into some server issues thanks to the tremendous growth we’ve been seeing.  You probably noticed the server was running slower than normal and issues were popping up left, right and center.

In order to allow for substantially more growth we’ve completed a major migration to a MUCH more powerful server.  Double the CPU cores, double the RAM and double the hard drive space.  What this means for all the members of Infobarrel should be much quicker load times, and hopefully more people sticking around reading your content.

If you do happen to run into any bugs, please make sure to contact us.  We’ve taken every precaution to make sure this goes as smoothly as possible (outside of the mysql errors yesterday), but sometimes things slip through the cracks.
Thanks!

Ryan

Hey guys,

Moving forward we are looking to start creating a little more buzz in the blog community.  To do so, we are going to create a a page dedicated to those who blog about InfoBarrel.

Want to get your site mentioned?  All you have to do is write about InfoBarrel on your blog, link to any page on the site, then fire us an email telling us where we can find your blog post.  We’ll post who blogged about us as well as a snippet of your post to give your some exposure.  I’ll also acknowledge your post on the InfoBarrel Twitter account!

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Hey everybody,

This weekend the approval queue got a little bit backlogged due to the fact that it is labor day weekend.  Some of us went away for the weekend and  I’ve been battling some form of nasty cold for nearly a week.  We normally have a pretty quick turnaround time on article approval but due to the Holiday articles have been getting approved a little slower than normal.

I’m working today (yes on the holiday) to try and clear things up a bit and get things running back to normal!

Hope everybody is having an awesome Labor Day long weekend!

Ryan