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It’s almost the end of the year…it’s almost time to celebrate and (a few days later) fireworks. The year that my blog had to move to another hoster twice due to a visitor overload! 2009 is also a year for loads of new stuff : I build myself a Nerd Network, the Philips TV which was unable to stream media files and of course the launch of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Exchange 2010!

2009 was a great year for my blog, the blog kept growing every month! Over 190,000 visitors visited Helmers Blog during the first 11 months of 2009. In November 2009 I found a sponsor which made it possible to move the blog to it’s own server! Thanks Hozio for the sponsoring!

This will probably be my last blog post in 2009. Just two more working days for me this year….so let me end by wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a a very happy 2010!

Helmer

 
Since early this year I received several e-mails from the web hoster to let me know that I had too much traffic/load/visitors coming to my blog. The first two overloads had something to do with a blog post I created, but the last one (just a few weeks ago) simply had something to do with a large increase in the number of visitors.

This made me decide to tweet about a sponsorship I was looking for, and Hozio responded. I’m proud to tell you that my blog has been migrated to it’s own server over at Hozio!

As you probably noticed the blog is back again. The only change I made was the Featured Content banner on the top of the homepage. If you like new hot stuff…just keep an eye on the blog for the next few days!

Due to some planned maintenance the blog will be unavailable (for a couple of hours) later today. The scheduled maintenance will take place between 10:00PM CET and 11:59PM CET. During this time the blog will be completely unavailable.

If you can’t miss the news for so long, please visit the beta version of my blog which is available at http://beta.blog.hznet.nl (it contains all the posts which were post before the weekend).

When I’m back online, I hope to show you some new cool features

From now on you can use WebSlices to keep up-to-date with my blog! Just click the green button next to the Homepage button to ‘install’ my webslice in your IE8 menu bar.

Don’t know what Webslices are? Or not using Internet Explorer 8 yet? Read all about IE8 and Webslices at the Microsoft IE8 Webslice page!

I think this is a very nice and modern way to keep up to date of my latest blog posts. Because I’m using Wordpress for my blog I searched the the internet for a decent recent posts plugin which made my blog ‘Webslice-enabled’. Too bad I couldn’t find one, so I decided to create a Wordpress Plugin. If you like the functionality, you can download the plugin to use it at your own blog.

For now…..let me know what you think of the new Webslice functionality by leaving a comment..