Posted in FreelanceLocalTech Chronicles at 7:20 am by andy

Can you say “swamped?”  We’ve been ridiculously busy with our freelancing and with our December 15 product launch (check out our new Universal Report Server at versareports.com!) and have totally neglected to write something for The Blog.

What’s new?  We just upgraded the FLT server to CentOS 5 (with latest versions of PHP and MySQL) because we found a problem in PHP4 related to our twice-monthly check to make sure that web URLs in our directory were up-to-date.  Our sincerest apologies if your web site was one of the ones erroneously caught by the problem, but the number was less than a handful, so we managed as best we could until we could spend some time upgrading the server.

Also new is this economy!  We’re seeing a lot more freelancers drop out than usual and fewer new freelancers signing up.  In 2008, we were getting about 20-30 new freelancers a month and losing maybe 5 per month.  This year, we’re seeing an add rate of about 10 per month and a loss rate of about 10 per month, so we’re holding steady at around 1000 freelancers in our directory (which turns into over 80,000! freelancer listings when you factor in the location and category for each freelancer).  If you know a freelancer who is not in our directory, point them in our direction!  Everyone can use a little more marketing help and we’re here to provide that.

We still get lots of feedback from freelancers that people are finding them through FreelanceLocalTech, so if you have a story to share, let us know!