It’s hard to believe sometimes that this humble blog started out of a desire to simply show off our ever-growing hot sauce collection to anyone willing to look at it. Back then, we had our site on our ISP’s web-server and it averaged 5 hits per day…and that’s even with being on the Ring of Fire webring.

A few months after its genesis, we had the site re-designed. While it seemed to be a good experience at first, that site design was ultimately flawed. Still, we managed to pump up the web traffic eight-fold, to a then-whopping 40 hits per day.

Now, our graph looks like this:

Thanks to Lisa at Ewebscapes.com and all her hard work for making a spiffy, more highly functional site, things are once again looking up. We’ve got new writers in the fold, some of whom have published some articles and some of whom haven’t as of yet. Now, we here at the HZOB are averaging well over 115+ hits per day, which is a 23-fold increase in barely a year’s time.

Hopefully, our future’s so bright…we gotta wear shades.