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Spiders and System Performance

BySteve April 27, 2002

I’ve noticed a couple of occasions where the server has been slogged to the floor. This would appear to be due to search engines unfriendly spiders spamming the site with lots of requests in a short period. Altavista is particularly dastardly for this, and is presently in the banned list that doesn’t even know the server is alive any more. FastSearch was the one that collapsed us tonight.

So… I am trialling some throttling software that tracks the number of requests a user makes in a certain period and throttles high users back. Hopefully normal users won’t notice any problems, but drop me a mail if you do get weird things happening…

Steve.

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New Server Needs Testers

BySteve September 28, 2004

Hi one and all, The new server is up and running and if people would like to please give it a visit and e-mail me if there is anything that isn’t working, gives a 404 error or such like… You can go to the new server at http://smarty.deardiary.net and please use it as you would…

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Inability to add comments

BySteve October 12, 2001

I’m adding comments. As you can see at the bottom of this diary… I don’t geddit! If people can post me in email their comments and the diary they’re trying to post to, I’ll see if there’s any noticeable pattern. Steve.

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Clarification

BySteve July 15, 2001

Just to clarify. We have no problem with people having multiple diaries, nor do we or will we require them to be linked. We couldn’t enforce such a policy anyway. The rules cover not talking about other diarists (as is already IN the terms and conditions, but is blatantly flouted), whether they are your own…

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Downtime.

BySteve July 16, 2000

Apologies for the serious downtime thats been experienced today, and yesterday. It seems that a bug in the kernel, due to our compiler and perhaps the options supplied to it, gradually consumed more and more memory until the machine ran out and fell over. As a result things would have gradually got slower and slower,…

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Incorrect IP Address Shown For Hits

BySteve April 16, 2004

Hi all, the Show My Hits screen will show a LOT of hits from server172.hamiko.co.uk because of the webserver changes mentioned in the last update. I shall investigate how to fix this later this evening and will let you know when I’ve a suitable resolution… Sorry about that!Steve

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New Friends System Now Online

BySteve January 11, 2004

The new friends system is now online. I hope that the screens I have written are not too confusing! Please give me any feedback you consider is necessary with regard to using the new system. The system does away with the traditional ‘notify list’ scheme, in that now people do not need to receive an…

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