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If people could let me know whether their problem is now resolved, I may have some idea of what it was… Trouble is, with the sketchy ‘it isnt working’ details I have, and the fact that its working quite happily for me, its hard to pin down 🙂

Hi all,     I've been busy today and managed (I think) to switch the system from using files for storing the various messages into using the database to do the job. Ultimately this will remove over 280,000 files from the filesystem – but that won't happen until I'm happy that the new system is working…

And a whole lot more besides. It would seem that the Plesk backup utility is a worthless pile of crap. ( for googles benefit when spidering this article – psadump does not backup everything properly. If you use only psadump and then wipe your system you will lose things ). Fortunately I took a filesystem…

We’re experiencing major database issues again, due to a significant bug somewhere in MySQL. We’re trying various options to fix the problem, but please bear with us for a little while longer. The problem manifests itself as a sudden (and catastrophic!) slow down, which on the server itself is represented by a load average exceeding…

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So, after much humming and harring (that is a real word you know) – I have actually got around to finally moving the DearDiary.Net service to a proper hosting provider again. It was previously hosted on a server in my house, running over my own broadband connection. Whilst this was nice and cheap, it was…