Sorry For The Down Time 7
Update
Hey
Last night should have been something really enjoyable for this site. I was featured on Digg. I should have been enjoying the large amount of traffic and clicks on my advertisers adverts. But sadly all was not to be enjoyed. I suffered the dreaded downtime. Until last night I had 3 months of perfect uptime. This post is to say sorry if you tried to access the site and you found it was down.
Basically what happened was the server wasn’t able give out the requests quick enough. As a result it died and the uptime was really poor. I hadn’t set Apache correctly to use all of the available RAM. To add insult to injury later on in the morning when things were back to normal, I incorrectly changed the settings again so it overloaded on memory. Some website on the internet don’t give great advice. Apache was to blame not my host, Slicehost.
So I am sorry if you couldn’t access this site, which was a real shame. I am also sorry for my advertisers since I am sure they would have received lots of clicks on there adverts.
If anyone has any good information for configuring Apache for a WordPress site with 512mb of RAM please email me or leave a comment. I would love to hear from you.
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7 Responses to “Sorry For The Down Time”
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The Digg Effect strikes again.
Comment By Balls on October 15th, at 5:57 pm
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Dun dar!! It shouldn’t of happened. I am really annoyed that it did. Oh well I will just have to do another great article and get it to the front page.
Comment By admin on October 15th, at 6:00 pm
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For what it’s worth, you got at least one new RSS subscription (that would be me) out of your Digg link yesterday – and to your “I Love Mac Apps” site as well. Don’t have any Apache tuning suggestions, though, sorry. :-)
Comment By cowboy_k on October 15th, at 6:03 pm
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Thanks cowboy_k, one RSS reader is better than none. I hope you enjoy this site.
Comment By admin on October 15th, at 6:31 pm
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Don’t worry too much, mate. The Digg effect will be gone soon, and your server can run smoothly after that. :)
Comment By Wendy on October 16th, at 1:54 am
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Did you have any of the WordPress caching tools installed? They can really help with the Digg effect.
Comment By Dan on October 16th, at 10:08 am
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Yeah, SuperCache, I don’t know why it failed like that.
Comment By admin on October 16th, at 5:12 pm