Web Tech

Anyone who knows me should also know that I love technology.  They should also know that I love the web.  I created this website when I registered AdamWelch.Co.Uk on the 7th of February 2002. So the ten year milestone passed me with little celebration (as it did you I’m sure) a little over a year ago.  In 2002 not a lot of people had personal domains, definitely no where near as many as those that do now.

With that in mind, I thought I’d document – for myself mainly – the history of the site, and explain in a little more detail how it all works now.

2002 – 2006 I used a few different hosts at the beginning of the website.  Non of which were very good, but they were cheap, and very few people viewed the thing anyway.  It first hosted a few html pages I hacked together from code I’d learnt, and a little later a nice php based gallery system for my photos (well ahead of facebook me you know).

However in January of 2005 I made the Cillit Bang Experiment which even today proves quite popular.  If that had been released today, and proved to be as popular, it would have been considered as ‘going viral’.  Back in 2005, it was just considered to be very popular (tens of thousands of hits within a couple of days).  Unfortunately this success caused some issues for my webserver of the time, enough so I had to offload the images to my ISPs host (which thankfully had reasonably fast servers which didn’t have bandwidth limits).  With the experiment still proving popular a year later, it became clear it was time for a new host.

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