Steve gets fame :)

I’ve noticed that the server has been running a little slow at times – during those times the load on the server has been EXTREMELY high. I’ve narrowed this down to 2 reasons; System processes running in the background are (were!) taking too long to complete and taking too much resource while they are running….

Atomic Albums search engine was one potential cause of a problem, this problem (displaying all pictures on the entire site if no search criteria specified) is now fixed, and a better way of displaying the pictures will be implemented in the next few days…. Sorry again. Steve.

This has opened up an interesting can of worms. By doing our business in the US, and having our server in the US, according to the FTC and COPPA (which is where the law is cited as requiring parental consent for collecting information about children under 13) DO have jurisdiction over us… Though I think…

Has anyone seen it recently? Looking across my logs, it would appear not, but if someone knows otherwise I will keep the ‘call’ open, otherwise I’ll officially declare our fix a winner, and mail the MySQL developers to find out why it should be so 🙂 Steve. P.S. Yes, searching for text in entry bodies…

Are they working? Steve

The following comment was left a few days; For those of you that are based in the US it would do you good to try this address.. http://www.wiredpatrol.org I have been in conversation with Wired Patrol and we cannot contact them on your behalf. You will have to contact them directly if you are having…