It seems the problem only affects some people’s diaries.. I have added some debug code because at this point I’ve no idea what’s causing it – everything looks exactly as it should be on the server. Though I did have to chuckle at the hacker who tried to get in through the forum system –…
Hi all, I’m aware that links in people’s notify e-mails are not working properly at the moment, it’s something I shall look into very shortly (as soon as I get some time to!) and apologise for the inconvenience in the meantime. At this point I’ve no idea what’s causing it or why it would suddenly…
Apologies for the unexpected outage last night, the server decided that it’s disks were all read only and therefore nothing at all worked properly. I shall attempt to investigate why the disks decide to go read only, this is the second time it’s happened in a fairly short space of time so it rather needs…
It’s rare that I will use the popularity of this diary for politically motivated reasons, but this is as much humanitarian as it is political and since I’ve been made aware that I’ve disappeared into the ether somewhat on my personal diary I’d like to point out this entry of mine and ask people to…
We’ve got some fairly lucrative advert campaigns running at the moment, the first since approximately the end of 1999 and the number of showings the customer wants is significantly higher than we’ve been able to deliver in the first week of the campaign. As such I’ve been asked (and agreed to) add some adverts to…
Hello all, I’ve received a number of requests to remove people from the ‘friends only’ lists because the diarists no longer write here or they’re no longer required. For me to process these requests manually takes a lot of time that I just don’t have at the moment and so I am going to have…
Apologies for this evening’s slowdown and eventual error messages regarding the inability to connect to the database. The problem was due to someone who submitted at least 730 requests within 2 minutes for individuals diaries. The address range, and browser type did not indicate this was a normal search engine spider, and given the sheer…
After many months – or is that years – of promising such a service, we’ve finally managed to put something in place to provide a full web hosting package for DearDiary.Net users. Details can be found at www.kabarty.com Those of you who’ve grown familiar with the Hamiko logo and Hamiko name, may be puzzled as…
DearDiary.Net Plus Account holders now benefit from full anti-virus protection on their deardiary.net mailboxes, along with increased anti-spam protection after a small upgrade this afternoon to the server as part of our continued effort to give Plus account holders more and more benefits to being Plussed. If you’re a Plus account holder you don’t need…
DearDiary.Net is proud to announce that there is now 20 Megs of FTP space is now available for Plus account holders. The space can be used for anything that is legal, that you want to put onto your diary – this could be music (though you must make sure you have the copyright holders permission),…