About General
Staff
(Updated 10 February 2023)
Fourteen years ago, on 1 February 2009 I registered alternatewars.com out of a desire to create something equal to “Luft '46” – the Allies had their own designs which were just as forward thinking and advanced – they just weren't publicized as much. Originally, my concept was to create a “ring” of websites with names like USAAF '46, RAF '46, and VVS '46. However, sanity shortly returned; and I began to think about a website simply titled www.1946.com; but sadly that was taken - www.june1946.com was the next idea.
It was at that point that I realized that if I named it something very broad, like “Alternate Wars”, I could cover a whole variety of subjects.
Thus, I launched the site and slowly added to it; with statistics over fourteen years of operation under the “Alternate Wars” brand being:
|
Year |
Unique Visitors |
Visits |
Bandwidth (GB) |
|
2009 |
30,000 |
50,150 |
197.64 |
|
2010 |
59,600 |
92,747 |
828.8 |
|
2011 |
135,700 |
201,723 |
668.72 |
|
2012 |
197,300 |
303,470 |
1,008 |
|
2013 |
167,500 |
267,664 |
946.81 |
|
2014 |
1,324,400 |
1,544,316 |
7,140 |
|
2015 |
686,900 |
832,495 |
4,002 |
|
2016 |
252,900 |
345,063 |
2,230 |
|
2017 |
272,100 |
357,482 |
1,980 |
|
2018 |
316,150 |
430,834 |
3,840 |
|
2019 |
144,440 |
213,172 |
1,620 |
|
2020 |
139,253 |
197,977 |
2,220 |
|
2021 |
226,221 |
316,117 |
2,180 |
|
2022 |
85,000 |
125,599 |
2,004 |
|
Totals |
4,037,464 |
5,278,809 |
30,866 |
|
14-Year Averages: 288,000~ Unique Visitors Per Year NOTE: The huge uptick in visitors in 2014 was when one of my pages on the loading of the Atomic Bombs went viral and got spread around. |
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In January 2023; I had to upgrade AW's hosting to the next tier of hosting, as my site at that point had grown big enough (50+ GB of files) to require a hosting tier change to continue operations. My hosting provider then proceeded to botch the hosting transfer to their “Pro” level of service. After about fifteen days of waiting for them to fix things, I called it quits and began to migrate away from them.
At this point, I decided to rebrand to GeneralStaff.org – for a simple and prosaic reason. When looking at my web statistics and logs to see where I was referred to/from, I found a common refrain being:
“Is this real? The site is alternatewars.com after all...”
Plus, over time; my site had become more of a “General Staff Guide” of neat things that were more useful in planning a military operation than providing hypothetical wars.