14,000,000 hits since December 19, 1996.
Website mentioned and staff member Benny Hsieh (Braxus) quoted in Los Angeles Times Calendar Section article "The Next Level". Article was written in anticipation of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's performance of music composed by Nobuo Uematsu on May 10, 2004.
Website makes its small screen debut as the "Site of the Nite" on TechTV's "The Screen Savers" TV show.
Videogame Music Archive mentioned on Page 124 in the July 2002 Issue 22 of the Playstation 2 Official Magazine-UK. A scanned version of the article is available here.
6,000,000 hits since December 19, 1996. Roughly 8,000 unique visitors per day.
Archive moved to a faster server, still at RackShack. Total Online Space: 40 GB. Server-based stats (our most accurate yet) indicate unique hits per day at about 8,000-10,000. Previous stats had been undercounted. 400 GB/month bandwidth restriction.
5,000,000 hits since December 19, 1996. Roughly 5,000 unique visitors per day.
Location #10 - Archive now on dedicated server (which we're paying for) at RackShack. Total Online Space: 20 GB. Unique hits per day at about 4000. 300 GB/month bandwidth restriction.
4,000,000 hits since December 19, 1996. Roughly 4,000 unique visitors per day.
3,000,000 hits since December 19, 1996.
Archive mentioned in a newspaper article titled "The Joystick Symphonies" about video game music by the Washington Post (District of Columbia)
At 11:35 AM EDT: 2,000,000 hits since December 19, 1996
1,700,000 hits since December 19, 1996
Videogame Music Archive mentioned on Page 56 in the March 2000 issue of Yahoo Internet Life Magazine. Two scanned versions of the article are available online: Small Version (83KB) and Large Version (221KB)
Videogame Music Archive mentioned in article "Scoring a Grammy" by Brad King, as he refers to this site and its hit counter near 2,000,000 in Wired. Local scanned copy of page available here.
1,500,000 hits since December 19, 1996
Websites 3rd Birthday. 3rd birthday contest part 1 is completed, part 2 begins.
1,000,000 hits since December 19, 1996
900,000 hits since December 19, 1996
800,000 hits since December 19, 1996
750,000 (quarter million!!) hits since December 19, 1996
700,000 hits since December 19, 1996
600,000 hits since December 19, 1996
500,000 hits since December 19, 1996
400,000 hits since December 19, 1996
300,000 hits since December 19, 1996
2,113 hits in one day (first time over 2,000)
Our domain name is moved to the new server, which makes the site reachable at http://www.vgmusic.com/ again.
Location #9 - Archive moved to http://www.telefragged.com/~vgmusic/. Hosted by Telefragged.com. The vgmusic.com domain name, which is still sitting at our Neurogamer server, is currently in the process of being moved to our new
location. Total Online Space: Unlimited. Starting hits per day about 1200. No bandwidth restriction. Worldwide public ftp mirroring!
Possible Hosting of other sites using the vgmusic.com address! (added 05/16/98)
Our domain name is finally moved back to the site, which makes it reachable at http://www.vgmusic.com/
Location #8 - Archive moved to http://www.neurogamer.com/vgmusic/ (URL inactive). Hosted by Neurogamer.com (host inactive). The vgmusic.com domain name, which is still sitting at our TierraNet server, is currently in the process of being moved to our new location. Total Online Space: Unlimited. Starting hits per day about 1100. No bandwidth restriction.
Added the Java Chat Room
Wishlist closed and replaced with the Videogame Encyclopedia
Location #7 - Archive moved to http://www.mightyfox.com/users/vgmusic/ (URL inactive). Mightyfox.com (host inactive). The vgmusic.com domain name proved too difficult to move there. Total Online Space: 1 gigabyte. Starting hits per day about 1000. No bandwidth restriction.
Website's First Birthday!
100,000 hits since December 19, 1996
Location #6 - Archive keeps the same domain name, http://www.vgmusic.com/, but is hosted by TierraNet.com. Total Online Space: 50MB. Starting hits per day about 1000. The cost of running the site is cheaper than Valueweb and overall server performance is better. However, the maximum bandwidth (allowable downloading from the site per month) is 5 gigabytes. To our surprise, people download more than this amount which costs us an extra $20/GB!
Location #5 - Archive moved to http://www.vgmusic.com/. Total Online Space: 50MB. Starting hits per day about 1000. VGMA Founder Michael Newman is joined by financial partner Necrosaro to purchase domain name and pay for web hosting at ValueWeb.net. We discover to our dismay that the FTP server accepts uploads at an average speed of 0.100KB/sec!
Lockergnome, a very popular web zine, mentions us in their Issue #52.
1,118 hits in one day (first time over 1,000)
Videogame Music Archive named Ultra Gameplayer Magazine's Fan Site of the Month in their October issue (Issue #102)!! A one-third page article on page 152. Two scanned versions of the article are available online: Small Version (86KB) and Large Version (441KB) the article.
Location #4 - Archive moved to http://www.talons.com/vgmusic/ (URL inactive). Hosted by Talons.com. Total Online Space: 50MB. Starting hits per day about 500.
507 hits in one day (first time over 500)
Number of Wishes Granted on the Wishlist surpasses 100.
Location #3 - Archive moved to http://talon.extremecom.com/vgmusic/ (URL inactive). Hosted by Extremecom.com. Total Online Space: 50MB.
Starting hits per day about 300. Geocities left with over 45,000 hits on the original counter that started since the archive was first created at EnchantedForest.
Started advertising for four new employee positions.(added 09/02/98)
Location #2 - Archive moved to http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/7097/ in order to be eligible for the "Featured
Page Program". Hosted by Geocities.com. Total Online Space: 5MB.
Starting hits per day about 150.
Location #1 - Archive started by Michael Newman at http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/3997/. Hosted by Geocities.com. Total Online Space: 2MB. Hits per day about 50 a week after opening.
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