floor9.com started back in the summer of 2002.  Originally launched as a way to share photos with coworkers, the site spent most of its life documenting the nightlife renaissance of downtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  Today, floor9.com is a mixture of behind-the-scenes observations on the Central PA blogging community and the redevelopment of East Hanover Township.  What once pulled a few dozen visitors per week now averages well over 10,000 visitors every month.

floor9.com was originally powered by a custom Gentoo Linux server.  From 2003 through 2007, floor9.com moved through several shared hosting environments including GoDaddy, Ace-Host.net, and BlueHost.  Since January 2008, floor9.com is hosted on a VPS server at Steadcom’s primary datacenter in Los Angeles, California.  This space is shared with blogHarrisburg.com, HarrisburgBlogs.com, ContemporaryRuins.com, and all related projects such as wikiHarrisburg and the blogHarrisburg forums.

The site was initially created using static HTML pages, requiring all updates to be hand-coded.  In February 2005, floor9.com was transitioned over to the xOOPS Content Management System — a terrible mistake.  After fighting with xOOPS’s numerous failures, security flaws, and other problems, the site was moved to WordPress in July of that year.  It has remained on WordPress ever since.

Although certainly not THE oldest, floor9.com is one of the longest-running, continually-updated Harrisburg-based blogs in existence.