Record Breaker
DearDiary.Net served over a quarter of a million pages last week…
Thats PAGES, not requests. We served well in excess of a million requests (that includes images and such like).
Thought you might like to know 🙂
DearDiary.Net served over a quarter of a million pages last week…
Thats PAGES, not requests. We served well in excess of a million requests (that includes images and such like).
Thought you might like to know 🙂
Just a quick note for anyone who cares, the database server has been running on what the authors called a Gamma release. That is, it was mostly stable but they wanted to make absolutely sure before calling it stable… The latest release, which is now installed on the DearDiary server, is now the latest and…
*sigh* Ok, so noone got the cant connect error, but its only by good fortune. Just after I posted that entry, I checked the database and it had a HUGE bunch of locks… So tonight, in the next few minutes (sorry for short notice!) I shall be downing the database and installing a (much) later…
The changes I’ve made seem to have eased the ISE’s, but not eradicated them completely. Someone in a comment yesterday noted that it only seems to happen on the diaries that have a lot of entries. This would make sense because the system is dragging various details of every entry a diarist has written in…
Diary Notifications had stopped working again. I believe I have found the reason why and have put a temporary solution in place for now, which will hopefully see things for a few days until I can put a more permanent solution in. The permanent solution may well improve things with the Hotmail situation in the…
I have today added more formal support for international people… Most of the world doesn’t speak, or therefore write diaries, in English characters and until now DearDiary.Net has just completely ignored these people’s needs. I have now added rudimentary support for Internationalisation, by way of setting the content type character set. At the moment there…
Today the server will be up and down while I try to find out what it is thats crashing it, and put in place some measures to try to make sure it doesn’t keep happening… This involves a massive change to the security policy for the database and so its possible that some, or all,…
My records indicate that the growth in the number of page requests is directly proportional to the amount of entries that GoodLoser writes.
If only our revenue grew in proportion as well 😉
Steve
Wow! Way to go DD guys!
LOL
i have certain general thoughts that someday DD will become the largest net community…
the veterans will not abandon you, DD administrators!
😉
za