My Top Articles in 2014

2014 was a fun year to be a blogger in the Microsoft world. Traffic to my site continued to grow, and eventually I was forced by my web hoster to move to a dedicated virtual machine. I stayed with them for a while before moving to Azure … and that’s when my traffic more than doubled! I don’t know if was the fact that I am now hosted on Azure or if it’s because I revisited all my WordPress plugins, including SEO.

Where are these people coming from?

The USA dominates. And Ireland punches above it’s weight, probably because I’m Irish, of course. In the USA, California and Texas must be the hotbeds for Hyper-V:

Washington State isn’t far behind, and I always chuckle to see how much traffic comes out of Redmond 🙂

What OS are all these people using?

Obviously Windows desktop OS is the clear winner. I surprised that iOS beats Android. And considering the skewed percentage of Windows Phones used by people in our industry, I am very surprised that Windows Phone is less than 1% of the client OSs hitting my site.

OK, now on to what people are reading. Interestingly, it’s lots of old stuff!

• 10: Office 365 and Remote Desktop Services: An out-of-date post
• 9: Rough Guide To Setting Up A Scale-Out File Server: I think this is the newest post in the top 10
• 8: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Replica … In Detail: An oldie but a goodie
• 7: Windows Server 2012 Licensing In Detail: Licensing, yuk!
• 6: Installing Windows 8.1 And Missing Drivers On Samsung ATIV 500T Tablet: This one amazes me!
• 5: Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing: More licensing, yuk!
• 4: Hyper-V and VLAN’s: Another oldie techie post.
• 3: Rough Guide To Setting Up A Hyper-V Cluster: A really old post, written in the 2008 R2 era.
• 2: Installing .Net 3.5 Fails on Windows 8 With 0x800F0906 Error: This post gets big hits.
• 1: Windows Server 2012 Virtualisation Licensing Scenarios: The easiest licensing around must have the most questions. People continue to over-think this subject.

If we look at how active people were on the pages, most have a minute or more of reading. But some folks were more active on some pages causing “events” as they are called in Google Analytics. The .Net page wins there. But after that it’s a different profile of page, with the content being much newer.

My “Microsoft News” pages aren’t huge aggregators of hits like the older “how to” articles, but they still create lots of interest every day. And to be honest, I use them as my own personal notebook to keep up with what’s going on 🙂

So how do I summarize all this? Interest in Hyper-V, etc continues to rise, based on my small sample. People are looking for information on the 2012/2012 R2 generation of products (that’s good!). But people are struggling with licensing and some techie things that are unwanted distractions.