Plus Users

If you’re a Plus user who’s been affected by the downtime over the past few days please e-mail me privately ([email protected]) to get an extra week added to your Plus subscription by way of apology and compensation for the inability to use the system over the last few days. There are still some residual issues…

Running some tests

Well, given that with DD switched off the server survived over 24 hours when it wouldn’t do more than half an hour before, I have switched it back on presently. The ‘genre selector’ is still disabled at present because I believe that to be completely messed up and needs the query to be rewritten. You’ll…

Buggered Queries

The problem appears to be down to a specific query that has just blown itself to bits for some reason. It’s the ‘Genre Selector’ query, so the ability to search for recent updates in a specific genre is presently offline while I figure out a better way to deal with it. There may be other…

Seems to be Data Issue

There’s something wrong with the query that runs the last updated screens (the one if you click the Show button) Its disabled, I can’t be fagged to figure out what is wrong with it, its obviously decided to explode in the last few days and frankly its half past eleven and I have better things…

Hmmmm

I think it might be the usual misbehaving spider causing the problems, but I shall reserve judgement for now.. I know there is a particularly badly behaved spider on the net that tries to grab hundreds of diary pages in one go and causes massive server problems… We shall see whether my changes to robots.txt…

Performance Issues

There seems to be something causing the server to go on a go slow occasionally – I’m not sure whether its the database that gets its knickers in a knot or whether its something else on the server… Symptoms are pages loading slowly, Database Connection Errors and potentially Proxy Connection Failed errors… I’d recommend anyone…