This post represents a quick note to our loyal readers regarding recent milestones in World of Apple’s timeline and plans for the future.

First of all over the last few months our readership has pretty much doubled, hurtling us towards our next milestone of 20,000 readers. At this rate we should hit that around the middle of next year. The entire World of Apple team welcomes all our new readers.

Some of you out there may have noticed a few changes over the last day or so, over the last 2 months we’ve been working hard at moving World of Apple to our new host; Media Temple.

It all started back when we posted those exclusive images of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Build 9A499. It caused an influx of over 200,000 unique visitors over a 4-day period, during those 4 days we experienced zero site wide downtime but our current host at the time decided that pulling down that gallery was a smart decision to prevent load. The gallery page was down for a total of 24 hours and when it returned only caused the server to choke again.

Believe it or not World of Apple has been hosted on a shared server for the last two years and albeit a beefy shared server it appears it is time to move up the ladder. The distinct disadvantage of a shared server is that what happens to this site or any other site on the server affects every other site on the server and from the point of view of our hosts that isn’t good for business.

So after much searching and deliberation World of Apple is moving away from UK Web Solutions Direct to Media Temple.

The move hasn’t been easy and both UKWSD and Media Temple have helped immensely, but special thanks should be extended to one guy who works ridiculously hard behind the scenes; he knows who he is.

For now not everybody will be pointing at this server as DNS propagation can take anywhere up to 48 hours but if you’re reading this then you have arrived safely, the only difference being a new Media Temple logo under the search box.

Finally World of Apple celebrated its second birthday on September 25th, here’s to another 2 years!