So I missed restoring a download yesterday; two will be up and running by the end of the day today as a result.

In the interim, let’s revisit a point of interest. Previously, in September of 2009, I offered a look at the site’s download statistics:

Total Files: – 197
Total Size: – 3.0 GiB
Total Hits: – 4,295
Total Bandwidth: – 50.0 GiB

Those numbers were pretty impressive; they represented the sum total of download traffic that Aiera had seen since mid-April of 2009, and then with only about half her downloads actually in a functional state.

Here are the current numbers:

Total Files: – 340
Total Size: – 7.5 GiB
Total Hits: – 31,403
Total Bandwidth: – 902.1 GiB

So…let’s review. The count of files available for download has increased about 173%, and the total storage footprint of the downloads has increased by 250%. The count of clicks on download links, meanwhile, has increased by a whopping 731%.

And then there’s the bandwidth. Since April 15th of last year, Aiera has served up nearly a binary terabyte of downloads to Ultima fans; bandwidth has surged ahead a mind-boggling 1804% since last September.

I don’t often bleg, and won’t make a habit of doing so, but if any of this has any meaning to any of you, perhaps contemplate hitting up the tip jar, which you can find, right-aligned, at the bottom of the “single post” view of any article or project entry on the site. The hosting and bandwidth doesn’t pay for itself, after all.