Yesterday my new server really got a test. The old server really fell together when around 70-100 people where online at the same time. Yesterday at most 137 people where online, and the resources the server got where bearly used. The CPU had at MOST between 15-20% usage. RAM usages where around 50%.

So far, so good. Lets hope it keeps acting this good in the time that comes also. I will sponsor a couple games soon to get some new fresh traffic, and this time the server will be ready. Total visits yesterday wasen’t to shabby either just above 7k visits. I need to start working on monetizing soon though, since that amount of traffic earnet me under $7. Yes, seven dollars. You would expect bigger numbers, right? Well, welcome to the arcade industry.

Finally! Couple days ago I bought a new server, and today I completed the transfer and it looks like the nameserver/dns are updated all around. So far everything runs smooth, and I love to have a server where the site can grow.

I did not go for a fully beast as I first thought, but the new server is absolutely much better then the old one, and it’s fully scalable, meaning I can upgrade it if it is needed.

Heres the specs:

Intel Core2 Duo CPU E6750
2GB ram
Two hard drives. One for the site, and one for backup.

Hopefully this will do for now.

I have finally added a decent traffic trading system on Holy Grail Games, and now everybody can trade traffic with us. The system will match any traffic you send, and send the same amount back to your site.

All you have to do is sign up, and start send some traffic to our games. When your site is accepted we will send back all the traffic you already have sent, and match any traffic you send.

Sign up for traffic trading

Check Traffic Trading Stats

I would love to hear your comments and if you find any bugs or got any ideas let me know.

I have added a “widget” from uservoice.com which allows my visitors to leave feedback really easy. This feedback can be bugs on the site or suggestions etc. When you are on the site you will notice a little button on the right side. Clicking on this will pop-up a box where the most voted suggestions are.

I’m not sure if anyone are going to leave any feedback, but it’s worth a shoot.

http://holygrailgames.uservoice.com/
Have you tried this before?

Just a quick note about this happening.

Yesterday was a though day for my server. Over 10.000 unique visitors came to the site. The downside of it is that about half of it was traffic from china, which lead to a slow working server. The goal is to get 10.000 uniques steady per day, but then with prime users from US/UK and Europe.

So, finally the “new” site is up. It’s a complete makeover, and the backend is also changed from GS to PHPAS. This is a move that I wanted to do for a long time, but haven’t had the time to go trough with such a big change. I have worked on the new layout of and on for a couple months, and are pretty happy with it.

Now I only need to get a decent plug mod and it would be christmas this year as well.

Anyway, what do you think about the new look?