The Domains and Webhosting History


This page serves to keep a list of the major changes for my websites. It will be updated on irregular basis.

I purchased the domain helloacm.com on Oct/2006 and began my internet journey since then. It is worth to mention that prior to that, I have another domain name justyy.co.uk (domain certificate in PDF) registered (just the domain name, without web hosting) but I abandoned that domain when it expired.

Domains

On 12/Nov/2015, all domains are protected using CloudFlare‘s DNSSEC.

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2023 Update: 13/15 Domains are transferred from How to Transfer Domain From Namesilo to CloudFlare Registra?

Domain Expiry

On 26/03/March, all 6 domains are transferred into Namesilo. A one-year expiry is added.

I will retire the domain helloacm.com and continue renewnals of other domains (to normally 10 years, in favor of SEO ranking).

The latest list of domains and their status in namesilo (updated on irregular basis, 26/07/2016)

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Servers

At 24/08/2018, I upgraded the server of helloacm.com to 4 fours, in order to better serve the traffic!

At 08/05/2017, the UploadBeta.com has been migrated to Vultr 4096 Server (2 cores, 4096 GB RAM, 60GB SSD). The new server is located in London. There is still one month before the Rugby (QuickHostUK) server expires (2017-June-23), so I will use that server for some experiments.

At 01/03/2017, I have deployed a Vultr instance in Japan and migrated the websites from Singapore to Japan. The domains on it are: helloacm.com, weibomiaopai.com, isvbscriptdead.com and happyukgo.com. The reason is that it is said in Mainland China, the speed to Japan Servers are faster than Singapore.

At 16/02/2017, I have deployed a Linode Instance in Fremont, USA (West) and migrated the steakovercooked.com website on it. See the comparison between Linode and Vultr.

At 19/01/2017, I have migrated three domains: helloacm.com, codingforspeed.com and justyy.com to the Vultr VPS Server located at New York, USA.

At 22/09/2016, I have moved HappyUKGo.com to Vultr Hosting… It costs only $5 and it is based on Singapore, which I believe the main customers from China should have a good speed.

At 25/11/2015, the VPS Server has been configured to use mod_pagespeed module from Google: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/config_filters

On 18/Nov/2015, the HelloACM.com, the JUSTYY.com and the CODINGFORSPEED.com start to use paid WordPress Scheme, the Schema.

On 05/Jan/2006, all four wordpress sites (helloacm.com, codingforspeed.com, steakovercooked.com/wedding, and justyy.com) have all been upgraded to paid WordPress schema 3.0 theme (cost 19 USD).

On 18/Nov/2015, the JustYY.com, the HelloACM.com and the CodingForSpeed.com have started using WP-Rocket Me, super fast WordPress caching plugins (WP Super Cache, CloudFlare plugins removed).

On 08/Aug/2015, the domain helloacm.com is using the Flexible SSL scheme by CloudFlare.

On 4/Aug/2015, the domain ROT47.net is using the Flexible SSL scheme by CloudFlare.

On 28/July/2015, the domains HelloACM.com and JustYY.com have been in the acceptance list of HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security), so the connections are promised to be secure from now on!.

On 26/July/2015, the domains HelloACM.com, UploadBeta.com and JustYY.com are migrated to CloudFlare Pro package for better performance.

On 26/July/2015, the codingforspeed.com has started using the Flexible SSL scheme provided by CloudFlare CDN. The HTTP connections have been redirected using 301 to HTTPS.

On 22/July/2015, the uploadbeta.com has started using the Flexible SSL scheme provided by CloudFlare CDN and therefore HTTPS connections have replaced the HTTP (insure) URLs. On the same day, JustYY.com and HelloACM.com have resumed using CloudFlare CDN because it supports the strict HTTPS (both secure connections to and from the VPS). CDN accelerates the website loading speed while minimizing the DDoS risks.

On 24/June/2015, the website has been SSL-enabled for domain https://justyy.com (second website that has SSL).

On 23/June/2015, I have further upgraded the VPS to quad cores, 3GB RAM, 50GB SSD. Wow! It only costs me around 32 pounds per month.

On 19/Nov/2014, I have moved/migrated the last domain rot47.net to the VPS as well. So from then, this is the first time that all my websites are hosted on the same VPS (Virtual Private Server). The cloudflare CDN are enabled for all domains except helloacm.com (because the free SSL is not supported in all browsers by CloudFlare).

Currently, the VPS server is located at Rugby (the middle of UK).

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VPS Server Location

On 13/Nov/2014, I have upgraded the VPS from 2 cores to 3 cores, and 1G RAM to 2G RAM in order to handle large traffic after some minor optimisation of the Apache2 configurations. All websites except helloacm.com are accelerated by CloudFlare CDN (Content Delivery Networks). However, the the CloudFlare serves only the name server for helloacm.com.

Before, 6/July/2014, all the websites are hosted on shared-servers. The domains of helloacm.com and helloacm.com are on Fasthosts business silver package (maximum 2 websites can be hosted). The rot47.net is on Godaddy and codingforspeed.com is on QuickHostUK – Unlimited Web Hosting.

On 6/July 2014, I purchased the VPS (Virtual Private Server) starter (only 6.99 pounds per month) from QuickHostUK – Unlimited Web Hosting and started the website uploadbeta.com. A few days later, I moved codingforspeed.com and helloacm.com onto this VPS as well and I’ve noticed a significant performance upgrade.

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I still have my domain name registar in Fasthost. The A Record points to the VPS from Fasthosts control panel and it works. There are costs (6 pounds) transferring one domain name to QuickHostUK – Unlimited Web Hosting from another provider and that is why I still keep my domains somewhere else. Maybe one day I will do the transfer.

Once, I found out the MySQL process stopped and my site was down [check this post]. I looked into the log and found out that the 512MB RAM in VPS starter is not enough and that is what causes the problem. Then I decided to upgrade to VPS Business package. The VPS specification is 1024MB RAM, 2 cores (2800MHz) and 20GB HDD.

I am going to move have moved another two domains rot47.net and helloacm.com to this VPS next year when before their contracts end.

On 5/Oct/2014, I have migrated helloacm.com to this VPS as well. However, I still keep the domains registration at fasthosts. I only modifiy the Advanced DNS Record [A Record] so that both domains point to the IP address of the VPS [check this post for details].

The following shows that the domain has successfully settled in on the VPS. And the Reverse Domain IP Checks updates quite quickly to reflect this. Then I deleted all the files and databases on the fasthosts.

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Reverse IP Domain Check on 5/10/2014

All servers are linux. The VPS has installed the Ubuntu.

Advertisements

Google adsense is the major adverisement I put on my sites. I started putting adsense since 2006 but I got my first payout through the bank transfer on 24/Sept/2013.
On 23/March/2015, the adsense is online for 8 years!
On 20/Aug/2014, the adsense says that the impressions of ads on my sites reached 1,000,000. A big step!

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I have also experienced other ads such as bitvertiser and chkita but so far they are not as good as adsense.

Traffic

My main site helloacm.com has a Alexa rank at 499,694 at 25/Sept/2014, 314,691 at 03/July/2015. Traffic to other sites are trivial.

The daily page views to all my sites are between 500 to 1000 at Sept/2014.

On 26/09/2014, I found out that there are two visits (sessions) from North Korea, Welcome to the world!

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Bandwidth

The VPS says ‘unlimited bandwidth’ however, as confirmed from the support of QuickHostUK, it is actually 5000GB. Check [this post] for how much money can be earned through adsense.

The first three months of VPS bandwidth usages are 12.21GB, 32.2GB and 42.66GB.

SSL (Secure Socket Layer)

SSL is the future. It is said that Google search algorithms rank SSL websites higher (better SEO scores). HTTP is insecure but HTTPS is secure. The communication between client and server is encrypted with HTTPS.

On 27/Sept/2014, I have enabled the HTTPS over the site: helloacm.com, in order to ensure the visitors that this site is secure. I hope the user experience is improved.

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There are still some pages that are not fully secured, but I am trying to solve them by time. The reasons are using some third party plugins such as [latex math] which is only HTTP and you cannot basically include any non-secure HTTP images inside a SSL page.

In my previous posts (very old posts in particular) I have hosted the images on helloacm.com and therefore I have re-uploaded to this SSL domain and already correct the links.

I have moved all domains to one single VPS, and maybe I will consider the dedicated server (if traffic grows rapidly).

Check this post and this post for using SSL.

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