New DB installed

The new shiny server turned out to be a pile of poo and I had to revert everything back to the old server. The hardware was not set up correctly and the server technicians answer was ‘we will need to reload your server’… My response was ‘I don’t think so – I have 100 customers…

Progress on the code moves along slowly at the moment, such is the nature of the week, hopefully i’ll be able to make atleast a little progress in the evenings and at the weekend. Until then, it’s a planning exercise and a dreaming exercise to try and decide what to do and where to go….

I also need to make sure that when comments are being viewed, to take into account the latest dated reader comment – otherwise newer comments don't get shown..

I have today updated the new user screen, the change user details screen and our privacy policy to reflect our interpretation of the COPPA regulations by which we must abide if we wish to provide service to the USA. Its a bit late, and for that we apologise, however, even though we are a bit…

I am experiencing some issues with diary notifications taking a very long time to be delivered. I am at present looking into why this is so and will let everyone know when it’s resolved and what it was. In the meantime, apologies but it is likely that notifications of new comments and entries will take…

The system slowdown was due, we think, to a database query not using an index to find the information it needed… After looking deeply into the MySQL manual we discovered we could have the database actually tell us which queries were running slowly. From that we can then tell the database (manually) to tell us…