A great year for Both.org

Both.org is having a great year thanks to readers like you. We’ve got some really great stats and I thought it would be good to share them with you.

The numbers

We started our second full year in January 2024 with some decent numbers:

• Visits: 8,654
• Page Views: 18,956
• SE referrals: N/A for January, but Feb was 606

But we’ve been getting better. For July we had:

• Visits: 38,059
• Page Views: 60,326
• SE referrals: 1,037

For 2025 to date:

• Posts: 162
• Visits: 151,300
• Page Views: 290,200

The U.S. is the leading country with 69.3K page views, Singapore is next with 11.3K, and China rounds out the top 3 with 9.5K.

How we do it

I think it’s important to understand a little about Both.org.

Our staff

Both.org is made up of a few volunteers sharing our knowledge. We have a core group of writers who contribute frequently and others who contribute one or two articles.

We have a small group of editors who review submissions and guide contributors if revisions are necessary. We try to make as few changes to articles as possible, while allowing our contributors to maintain their own unique style and voice.

We neither pay for articles, nor do we take payment for articles. We don’t have any ads on our site and we don’t charge for our content. All our articles are written by humans. We don’t use so-called AI generated slop.

The hardware

Both.org is housed on a single server in my own home. I built the server several years ago and it’s a very modest system.

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# MOTD for Sat Aug 16 03:10:50 AM EDT 2025
# HOST NAME:            yorktown.both.org
# Machine Type:         physical machine.
# Host architecture:    X86_64
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# System Serial No.:    Default string
# System UUID:          03d502e0-045e-05a2-de06-a40700080009
# Motherboard Mfr:      Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
# Motherboard Model:    Z370 HD3-CF
# Motherboard Serial:   Default string
# BIOS Release Date:    03/01/2018
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# CPU Model:            Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz
# CPU Data:             1 Six Core package with 12 CPUs
# CPU Architecture:     x86_64
# HyperThreading:       Yes
# Max CPU MHz:          4600.0000
# Current CPU MHz:      4300.004
# Min CPU MHz:          800.0000
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# RAM:                  31.214 GB
# SWAP:                 7.999 GB
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Install Date:         Wed 06 Aug 2025 12:55:09 PM EDT
# Linux Distribution:   Fedora 42 (Adams) X86_64
# Kernel Version:       6.15.9-201.fc42.x86_64
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Disk Partition Info
# Filesystem             Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
# /dev/mapper/vg01-root  3.9G  307M  3.4G   9% /
# /dev/mapper/vg01-usr    25G   15G  8.7G  63% /usr
# /dev/sda1              2.0G  493M  1.4G  27% /boot
# /dev/mapper/vg01-var    73G   49G   22G  70% /var
# /dev/mapper/vg01-tmp    20G  152K   19G   1% /tmp
# /dev/mapper/vg01-home   20G  6.8G   13G  36% /home
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# LVM Physical Volume Info
# PV            VG              Fmt     Attr    PSize   PFree
# /dev/sda2     vg01    lvm2    a--     72.00g  8.00g
# /dev/sda3     vg01    lvm2    a--     <224.08g        145.08g
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This 7 year old server also provides the basic network services for my home Linux lab. Altogether, it provides the following services.

• DHCP
• DNS — local and global
• NTP
• SMTP
• IMAP
• MariaDB (MySQL)
• HTTPD

My computers, including this server, are always working on various projects for the World Community Grid, which puts the otherwise wasted CPU cycles of home and office computers around the world to use. They use these computers as nodes in a volunteer distributed supercomputer based on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC). The projects include medical, genome, meteorological, and other types of calculations. Despite all the tasks my server runs in support of my network and Both.org, the vast majority of it’s CPU resources are used for these projects.

The btop image shows the CPU usage when BOINC is running at 100%. When BOINC is not running and only the system services required to keep my network and Both.org running, a very small amount of CPU is being used.

It’s quite amazing what you can do with a modest 7 year old system and Linux.