Server Indigestion
For the last few days access to this blog for you, my four regular readers, has been spotty and for long stretches non-existent. Same for me, actually: I couldn't write, you couldn't read. Some, of course, who don't understand our strange symbiotic compulsions would think this, at worst, a minor inconvenience. How little they understand.
I'm told by my hosting service that the problem was traceable to a rogue process that was heavily loading the database and sometimes caused things to slow down tremendously, at other times to stop working altogether. At the moment, the server seems to be working well. I have no positive word that anything has been fixed, but we can always hope.
Anyway, no need to adjust your sets, and I'll try to get back to thinking of fascinating, deeply thoughtful topics to write about.
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on Friday, 2 March 2007 at 03.36
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"Some, of course, who don't understand our strange symbiotic compulsions would think this, at worst, a minor inconvenience. How little they understand."
That's so true. When you can't get to your blog, check comments and post, it's like being cut off from a vital part of your world. That sounds melodramatic, but it's how you feel.
For whatever reason, from about mid-November until a month ago, I repeatedly found it difficult or impossible to get into my own blog because of slowdowns and complete stalls. At the other end, my Web host claimed the server appeared to be operating properly.
When I finally had had enough of this, I recorded and sent the Web host tech several traceroutes showing godawful slowdowns and failures to connect, at various times over a two-day period.
They responded by offering to move my account to a different server. This was done and the improvement was dramatic.
Maybe my old server had the same kind of rogue process. I wondered if the thing was loaded with users beyond its capacity or had been rendered a zombie by spammers.
Whatever it was, I'm mighty glad I don't have to struggle with it any more. I hope you're back in business as well.