New Database

Just a quick note for anyone who cares, the database server has been running on what the authors called a Gamma release. That is, it was mostly stable but they wanted to make absolutely sure before calling it stable… The latest release, which is now installed on the DearDiary server, is now the latest and…

Searching your Diary

Hi Everyone, A couple of quick announcements… Firstly, after a user request for a facility to allow searching of your own diary (possible already with the Search engine) we have updated it slightly to allow you to put a link to it on your own diary. When you want to search a particular users’ diary…

Affiliate Program?

I forgot to add in the last entry, if we can actually generate some guaranteed revenue to cover the costs of the site, we can actually put in place a decent affiliate program. To that extent we would also plan on implementing something like this; DiaristA tells her friend, DiaristB about DearDiary.NET (or AtomIC Systems)….

Thoughts on Performance

Surely it is amusing that I write in here, instead of getting my own diary up to date? 🙂 Hehehe 😉 I’ll get back to it, honest 🙂 I just wanted to note down some thoughts on performance of Websites – for those readers that are building, running, or even just considering running their own….

DOH!

Well, great news… The server was running nice and fast for about, err, 10 hours or so. And then crashed when it tried to do the nightly update!! Its done that once before, where the whole scripts just consumed all the database connections and left none for the web… Thats what happened this morning too……