Category Archives: Discourse.net

Limited blogging for a while — the blog is being occupied.

Which beats the alternative.

(via Maxspeak. Poor guy.)

Probably too busy to post today, except to note for the record that FBI Outdoes Itself With “SafeSneaker” Plan was of course a feeble April Fools item.

Some time between an hour ago and 23 hours from now, the blog will be moving (again) to a less congested server (cheerfully called “harpo”) within the megacluster operated by dreamhost.com. That means the blog should (at least for a while) be behaving better. Please comment here if you notice anything weirder than usual.

And if comments are not working, please e-mail me.

Update: In light of the first comment, I'd better explain: this is the result I got when I ran discourse.net through dnscoop.com. For some reason it thinks that discourse.net is actually the apparently valuable (why?) seorefugee.com.

Saturday night, February 25th, at about 11:15PM PST (i.e. Sunday morning here on the East coast), this blog and everything else hosted at Dreamhost will go dark as Dreamhost is shutting down everything in its building.

With luck, it should be back up again by 4AM PST (7am Sunday over here). It seems that someone discovered of some super-dangerous wiring flaw in the building that hosts the servers and they need to fix it.

Apologies for any troubles you have viewing the site and especially commenting today. In addition to a ton of spam, it seems that one of the other sites on the shared server I happen to be on — a site with the enticing name of “moneychump” — has got 1062 diggs and counting for a posting entitled 52 money hacks – one for each week!. (Please don't click on it.) The flood of hits has driven server load up to a peak of over 105, and even with throttling of that site is hovering in the teens. My experience is that this blog is ok so long as the total server load is under five or so.

There are days when I think it would be nice to have my own managed server hosted somewhere. Then I look at the price tag…