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The server has been moved to a more powerful machine today. In theory no-one will notice any difference because the old server is still serving requests by proxying them through to the new one. The DNS will catch up over the next few days (possibly sooner) and as such everything will hopefully definitely return to…
I've fixed up the server headers so that the 'newest entry' link and reader comments now take into account the latest dates that changes were made. This should improve things a fair bit, and yes, Salamander, that's exactly right – the server would have been sending back a 'Not Modified' header which indicates to your…
So, after migrating the enormous mess that calls itself DearDiary.net to a new host the other day it became apparent the hosting plan it was on was completely unsuitable for such a massive site. There’s over 3000 diaries registered on the new system (contrast that with around 60,000 on the legacy site though!) and they…
It has a name, the ‘SirCam Worm’. See this article on the BBC News site for more information. Bottom line, if you are infected it will start destroying files in October so get your system cleaned. Judging by the amount of email we’re still receiving (and now automatically bounced) containing this virus there are still…
You may have noticed that although the server hasn’t been crashing over the last few days, it has been giving the good old ‘Unable to Connect to Database’ error, or possibly Internal Server Error’s. This was due to a misconfiguration of the PHP module and the database, which is now sorted. Hopefully that’ll be the…