The feed appears to be fixed (thanks, Mox!).
However, I’m still maxing out the CPU regularly even with WP-Cache — just writing a comment can trigger this, and I don’t know why. If you see “Account suspended” when you visit here, that’s why.
Next steps are going to involve turning off some of the dynamic stuff on the sidebars…
OK, people are on my case about being late with the Sunday Poem, so I had better post something despite the fact that I am wrestling with site load. I am unsure what that means in terms of popularity of the Sunday Poem, since it’s only two people. But hey, two is better than zero. So even if I post the Sunday Poem, odds are it won’t increase load too much. 🙂
This is actually a song lyric. I don’t have a recording of the song handy, so you will just have to come to a jam session sometime if you want to hear it.
Married Life
You fell in love and you signed the papers
And moved home to annoy the neighbors
And it was good, just fine, living the married life
No kids yet, but what’s the hurry?
They just mean you have to worry
That’s no good, no time in the married life
I also installed WP-Cache2 (Thanks, Charles!) If you see any broken functionality, post here.
I just spent half an hour on the phone with Bluehost, my web hosting service. In the past, I’ve given them fits with expensive SQL queries and the like, but we were always able to resolve the problem.
This time, however, the verdict was, “You may have outgrown our hosting service.” The random “account suspended” messages you see are triggered by things as innocuous as serving up the favicon. The issue is just too many hits in a short span of time — the site may have just grown too popular. As I glance at the sidebar and see 40+ people here on a Sunday afternoon, it’s hard to argue with them.
They do have a “high CPU” option for twice the price, but they also said “at this rate, it’s a temporary solution for you.” So they suggested that I might want to look into some form of dedicated hosting.
Ugh. Expensive. Advice? Host recommendations? If I go to dedicated hosting, I may actually be obliged to actually push the ads I have on here so they are worth something, which would be annoying.
After taking a thorough backup, I will be upgrading to WordPress 2.1 today, in hopes that this buys me a teeny bit of headroom.
Heather Chaplin, co-author of the excellent Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution, has an article up on the New York Times website examining how Slamdance actually went, in the wake of the SCMRPG! controversy. A few samples:
