There seems to be a bit of confusion as to exactly what a Web Spider is/does so let me explain! 🙂 Search Engines, how do they work? When you enter in a search and click go, does it go to all the sites on the Internet or something else? The answer is the latter. It…
Anyone trying to access the site at the sites busiest time (1am GMT) will have noticed a rather annoying phenomenon… You couldn’t. Any time you turned around there was an Internal Server Error or if you tried to login you were constantly denied… The overall reason for this is simply that for some reason the…
Hi Xedri, Yeah, the front screen also uses a connection to the database, for pretty much everything, the genre selector which shows the different genres requires a connection, the Recent Updates requires a connection once every ten minutes (its a fairly long (well, 5 seconds or so) process to work out the latest updates, so…
A script error has meant that any new users have not been able to access their diaries properly since creating them. This has been since some time early this morning, but is now fixed. If you had never customized your diary, you would see Internal Server Error’s when trying to access your diary, and when…
The underlying database has been upgraded to a newer and reportedly much faster MySQL version. Unfortunately, due to some technical limitations of the operating system, it took longer than expected, (about half an hour, compared to the 5 minutes it should have been!) but its now back online and should stand a lot more load…
We had a five hour outage this morning (Saturday) due to a script that we had updated incorrectly. As a part of our tuning we had changed the overnight scripts to restart the various processes and unfortunately when we awoke we found out that it actually hadn’t started them up again after it shut them…
The showMyHits screens are currently giving incorrect results. The reason behind this is that as the site grows more information is added to the logfiles which means that showMyHits script has to parse significantly more with each passing month. Originally all statistics were going to be logged into the database, but that breaks our overall…
Just a quick update on system performance issues on the server. We have spent a chunk of time today ironing out some performance issues on the server. Steve has already spoken about the ShowMyHits resolution so I won’t go in to that one. We have removed the AccessWatch reports that would give you a five-minute…
Well, Steve got the system upgraded to the latest PHP (4.0.3pl1) today, and brought the Optimizer online so the PHP is now using a fair bit less system resource than it was (not that it was all that bad in the first place to be honest). The upgrade blew up the PHP source though which…