RuVDS Blog Digest of posts and our results of the year

    Sometimes it is useful to delve into yourself - this allows you to find something that you usually do not pay attention to. And then put it on the shelves, structure it, draw conclusions about what to do next - what to do and what not. Today we decided to delve into our blog: to analyze the results of two years of work in order to share our experience with you - suddenly it will come in handy for some of you. All further calculations are based on the analysis of the XLS file with information about all blog posts that can be exported to the corporate blog’s control panel - thanks to Habr for this opportunity. We started blogging in March 2016, and to date, we have posted 239 publications, three more are hidden in drafts. For the first (2016) year, we published 72 publications, of which









    58 (80%) scored a positive rating and 14 (20%) a negative. On the whole, our first year turned out to be rather experimental and was aimed at “feeling for” the interests of the audience by studying the site’s mechanisms, publication formats, and understanding what was going on and what wasn’t. 5 accounts took part in stuffing cones, some of which received certain karma injuries :)

    In 2017, the soil turned out to be more fruitful and 170 publications appeared in our blog , of which only one(0.58%) was negative. All of them were placed from one account, the rating of which at the moment would have allowed it to be on the 1st place among users (if it were not for the fact that Habr removed from the rating of users all whose login matches or is similar to the name of the company).

    If you subtract all the weekends of the year, you get the average pace - one publication per day, sometimes we take a day to catch our breath. We believe that at this pace the readers are not very bored), and for us such a rhythm is quite comfortable and compatible with the main work. We did not make any explicit conclusions in terms of the best time for publications, so we simply try to post the material before 12 noon - when it is most convenient to respond to comments.

    Given the combination of factors, this allowed us to confidently stay in the TOP 10 blogs over the course of the year, with fairly long stays in the TOP 5 (at the time of publication we are 4th) and once - in 1st place (for a couple of days).

    The Bitcoin exchange rate repeats the graph of our company’s blog rating for 2 years:



    The bulk of our publications are translations. Why? It's simple: we don’t want to write articles about all kinds of promotions and other sales, it’s long and difficult to write great useful articles by employees, writing posts by other authors is long, difficult, expensive and the result is always unknown. While the translations are simpler - all the material is immediately visible, you can evaluate its usefulness and, if it has not yet been translated, translate it relatively quickly, which again is simpler, cheaper in terms of work. So there is endless respect for those companies that write on the blog often and only unique content - as a rule these are rather large companies, so we hope that when we become the same we will also be able to afford the staff of authors for blogging on Habré :) we found several directions which are interesting to the audience of Habr (and it is for this audience that our services are great). They are easy to see by analyzing the hubs to which we most often write:



    Some statistics


    In total, for our publications over 2 years 7255 votes were cast.
    2016
    2017
    Posts Posted
    With Positive Rating
    With Negative Rating
    72
    58
    14
    170
    169
    1
    The total rating of all posts
       Of which are pluses
      Of them are minuses
    789 (~ 10.9 per post)
       1235 (73.5%)
       446 (26.5%)
    3880 (~ 22.8 per post)
       4727 (84.9%))
       847 (15.1%)
    Total Post Comments
    1919 (~ 26.6 per post)
    4908 (~ 28.8 per post)
    Total Bookmarking
    5575 (~ 77.4 per post)
    27236 (~ 160.2 per post)
    Total Post Views
    1238367 (~ 17299 per post)
    3547173 (~ 20865 per post)

    It can be seen that in all respects our blog is growing (or is it Habr growing, and we are with it).

    Top 10 blog posts by views

    269505 - Linux-2017: the most promising distributions
    187985 - Which programming language should you learn first? (ʇdıɹɔsɐʌɐɾ: ɯǝʚɯо ņıqнqvиʚɐdu)
    184754 - Bash scripts: beginning
    110130 - The most useful Linux command line
    tricks 96530 - Google Chrome Developer Console: ten non-obvious utility
    78262 - Methods of remote access to Linux GUI
    74118 - Node.js, Express and MongoDB : API in half an hour
    69654 - Bash scripts, part 2: cycles
    65405 -Mail server on Linux
    65212 - 10 ways to work in the Linux terminal, which few people know about

    Top 10 blog posts by the number of comments

    436 - What programming language should you learn first? (ʇdıɹɔsɐʌɐɾ: ɯǝʚɯо ņıqнqvиʚɐdu)
    202 - Is Yarovaya a victim? The first provider left Russia
    183 - Linux-2017: the most promising distributions
    182 - Async / await: 6 reasons to forget about promises
    149 - The most useful Linux command line tricks
    147 - Why do I need to reboot domain controllers once a month
    145 - Good taste rules from Linus Torvalds. Making code faster, easier and more understandable
    130 -Ten of the best antiviruses for Linux
    118 - Interview for a front-end developer on JavaScript: the best questions
    109 - Bash scripts: beginning

    Top 10 blog posts rated

    +72 - The most useful Linux command line techniques
    +70 - Google Chrome Developer Console: ten non-obvious usefulnesses
    +68 - JavaScript trends that you should pay attention to in 2017
    +65 - 10 tricks of working in the Linux terminal, which few people know about
    +57 - 19 unexpected finds in the Node.js documentation
    +53 - Amazingly useful tool: lsof
    +52 -Perfectionist’s paradise or what cable management should be
    +46 - Bash scripts: beginning
    +45 - Ticket Trick: hacking hundreds of companies through user support services
    +44 - JavaScript: the mysterious thing of expressing null> = 0

    Top 10 blog posts by the number of entries in bookmarks

    1506 - The most useful Linux command line tricks
    1291 - Bash scripts: beginning
    946 - Google Chrome Developer Console: ten non-obvious utilities
    725 - 10 tricks in the Linux terminal, which few people know about
    636 - 20 tricks in the command line Linux that save a ton of time
    510 -Interview for a front-end developer in JavaScript: the best questions
    505 - Bash scripts, part 2: cycles
    482 - Mail server on Linux
    421 - Linux-2017: the most promising
    420 distributions - Bash scripts, part 3: parameters and command line keys

    In 2017, the most pleasure was received from the translation of a series of articles about Bash. It was a really big cycle, really complex in terms of layout, really useful for a huge number of users. It is not surprising that one of the posts of this cycle became a champion (by the number of addings to favorites) not only on our blog, but on the Habré as a whole (more precisely, he has third place, and the second place by the same criterion was taken by our other post, about useful tricks in working with the Linux console). As a result, we even released a PDF version of the translation cycle.  

    In the new year, we will try to make our blog even better and even more useful for you - if you have any specific wishes, then write in the comments or in private messages. And along with this, we try to upgrade the services of our company, for which we give the habrahabr10 promotion code to all Habrausers with a 10% discount on our virtual servers.

    Contest Results


    The other day we posted a post with a competition for burger recipe , where we promised to choose two winners: the author of the most burger recipe (by users) and the author of the coolest recipe according to the burger Burger Heroes. The winners are:

    Subrisk - not so much offered a recipe, but ironically beat the appetites of Android-smartphones, having photographed the main prize and powerbank to it in a burger:

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    He gets a prize - a smartphone Huawei P10 Lite

    SSvetlana - the recipe for this user was chosen by our partners from BurgerHeros:

    “ Tweeter burger - wheat bun, chicken cutlet, cheese (like cheder), pink grapefruit pulp (separate from slices of film, cut into small segments) ) mix with sauce based on natural yogurt (natural yogurt, salt, olive oil) or mayonnaise sauce
    Burger “Chilly Willie” - a grain bun, cheese sauce with thyme, sardines, slices of white grapes
    Burger "Lola Bunny" - a grain bun, apple and carrot cutlet (carrot, apple, milk, egg, butter, semolina), cream cheese, pine nuts, arugula, honey-mustard sauce (honey honey, Dijon grain mustard, salt pepper).


    Svetlana gets a prize - a virtual server for 6 months from RUVDS with a CPU configuration of 3 * 3.4 GHz, RAM 3 GB, SSD 60 GB.

    All participants will also receive edible prizes - free coupons for tasting the resulting burger in Burger Heroes in February.

    Thank you for reading our blog,
    Happy New Year and all the best!

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