Another update mustang67ford was the last new member for 2009 and Limey- was the first new member for 2010. We closed out 2009 with 34,761 members. That means that we added a total of 6122 new members in 2009. We not only continue to add more new members but each year we add more new members than the year before.
We had three months (January, March and December) with more than 3 million page views and didn't fail to exceed 2 million a single month. June was the lowest and we still had 2,089,800 page views then.
Hopefully by the end of January or in February we'll add the new servers and put GBO on dedicated servers with 12 gigs of RAM each and leave all the other sites we host on the current servers. This should really boost the performance of GBO.
Some time this month we'll reach 35,000 registered members. I had hoped it would happen in 2009 and it would have really had we not deleted so many spammers that joined who weren't really valid members tho so it wouldn't have been right to have counted them. We also deleted over 1000 folks who had registered but got banned due to being spammers. It was determined they weren't trying to log in so the need for the bans no longer seemed valid so they too were removed from the membership to make it better reflect folks who joined to be participating members not to be spammers.
I'm gonna make a prediction that will be hard to reach but what the heck if ya don't reach ya never get anywhere. I believe we'll close out 2010 with around 7000 new members and end the year only barely shy of 42,000 registered members.