We are moving the deardiary.net server onto a machine thats got faster hard disks and more of them…
In theory this shouldn’t take long, but we all know the wild difference between theory and practise 😉
So. A heads up, the site will be going down fairly shortly (once I am satisfied that other sites we’re running have successfully ported to a new machine). I wouldn’t imagine it taking longer than a couple of hours to get everything moved across…
Fingers crossed.
Steve.
In a few days DearDiary.Net will be 5 years old… On that day in 1999, we served about 100 pages, most of which I suspect were me and Matt playing around… Today, in the last 20 minutes, we’ve served 12,467 diary pages alone, that’s not including pages such as the front page, or reader comments…
I’m having a thick moment, if anyone can help me with this I would really appreciate it, from the bottom of my heart! Could someone explain to me what the new comment system has to do with Censorship? Most of the complaints I’ve heard about the new comment system I am happy that I can…
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
Just to say, ‘Go ahead my friend, feel free’. If you would be kind enough to say where it came from (link to the entry itself if you like :)) I would REALLY appreciate it. But you don’t have to if its inappropriate. Steve.
I have received too many complaints about a certain, nameless diarist, that I have had to (at least temporarily) revoke our non-interference strategy that was invoked some months back and have made the diary private. I am in discussion with the author and await their response – though I’m not sure I hold out much…