Site downtime again

 Posted by (Visited 5489 times)  Misc
Jan 022007
 

Looks like SQL was unhappy again, and my host helpfully locked down the site for me. This time, it looks like it was the “get recent comments” plugin, because there’s 30,000 comments on the site (that’s after deleting all the deleted ones and all the spam ones).

I’m opening the site temporarily just to see if we get errors again — if we do, it’ll shutter again briefly while I ponder what to try next.

Edit: looks like disabling the plug-in did the trick. However, it also looks like there’s a newer version of the plug-in that hits the database a lot less often (instead of every time the site is hit, it only hits it when a comment arrives). So I will try installing that tonight when I get home from work when I can watch the site to see if it is overloading again.

Vietnam restricts online gaming

 Posted by (Visited 16455 times)  Game talk
Jan 022007
 

The BBC reports that Vietnam has restricted game session length to five hours, because of concerns over addiction. This of course ties in with China’s regulations, which lately are getting more attention because of their focus on content and expression (e.g., submitting games for approval, and having them reviewed monthly for banned religious or political content), but which were kicked off with the government-imposed three-hour session limit. China later gave up on enforcing this against adults — we’ll have to see if Vietnam follows suit or not.

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Some year-end site stats

 Posted by (Visited 8460 times)  Misc
Jan 012007
 

Around 375,000 unique visitors to the site in 2006, visiting around 760,000 times, for an average of 2 visits per person, accounting for 225GB of traffic, all told. (That’s not including 3.3m hits and 80GB of bot traffic).

Most people visit on Wednesdays. The fewest visit on Saturdays. 1/5 of visitors add the site to their favorites.

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