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Having moved DearDiary to its own IP address, I have unfortunately stuffed up potentially in a big way… The domain name server appears to have been set to allow systems to cache the answers for up to 5 days, instead of the 1 hour I thought it was at… This means that most of the…

Hi guys, The site went to rats whatsits while I was in Australia, as many of you noticed. However, I think I’ve discovered why and although I’ve not fixed it I have implemented a work around. Basically the new front page has a nasty memory leak somewhere and as the site gets busier the leak…

Search will be offline until further notice. We can’t have the database continually down, since then there’s nothing to search for! Todays outage was due to the fact that MYSQL decided that optimizing the entries table means deleting and recreating the fulltext index, which we know takes around 8 hours. Its not even like this…

I’ve made some tweaks to the database, and Matt made some tweaks to how the hits system works now, so that in theory, the system should be able to work a bit better for the people that deserve it, ie you guys reading this! Its a temporary step. The server is overloaded and we’re running…

Steve and Rose would like to announce the birth of their twins, Liam Shane and Zoe Marlene who were born yesterday at 1354 and 1356 weighing in at around 2.6 and 2.8 kilos (not sure what that is in lbs and oz sorry). Mum is doing well and Zoe is eating like a horse. Liam…

The server upgrade happened yesterday as planned, thanks to Verio for their prompt service on this! The extra memory has enabled us to increase the capacity of the various servers, and significantly increased the memory available for the database which should also speed things up significantly. Last night seemed to go well, and hopefully its…