December 31, 2008 by Zontick
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Sorry about the site hiccough. I personally apologize. Here's the explanation, for those interested.
As Cocky Dagger indicated here, BlueHost.com has been iron-fisted lately with overuse of resources... something that probably seems familiar given Linden Lab's recent Open Space server issues within Second Life. Yesterday, I got an email (as described here) and responded to it immediately. But it was already too late to assure continuance of service.
After working my way through the anger phase, I looked through the logs and found that there had been 1 error a day for the last month as related to the database - and this had to do with aggregation from other sites. This, I have found, is problematic with Drupal when on shared hosting - so I needed the site re-enabled to disable the module. You can imagine how easy that was to explain. I can too. Because I don't think I actually did.
So - two tickets later into Customer Service, the site is now back up.
And yes, I am working toward this being avoided in the future. It may be time for a dedicated server.
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Thanks for getting the site back up and like Sarah I very much appreciate the opportunity you have providied for us to write here.
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Bah. I appreciate everyone who contributes here on Your2ndPlace.com. I learn a lot here. :-)
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I'm happy to see it back. Thanks for dealing with all the bull
crap so that we get to keep our blogging home. I don't think we say it
enough, but I know we all appreciate it.
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Glad to see the site breathing the good air again.
I had a great host for an MMORPG game I authored two years ago, the host allowed me to operate several MySQL databases with the largest being over 300MB (not huge by SQL standards), and it ran several, seperate cronjobs/routines on the minute, every 5min, every hour, every day, and others which were triggered. Very CPU intensive for a shared platform, given at times 7 crons would run and each looked through and acted on the entire largest database...otherwise it served php pages all day and night, and hosted some fairly static sites/domains.
Knowing there are many fine hosts out in the hinterland, and the one I used was NOT the lowest hanging fruit on the webhosting "value/cost" tree, But they had great service and tolerated some very high CPU loads as mentioned and never complained(and they knew what load I and others were imparting). I have no affiliation with them any longer(I was just a customer), but I'll be glad to share the name if you contact me either by saying it's ok to post it here, or I can be reached via Jezebel's inworld IM or email (unless she balks at this idea.)
Feel free to delete this once read, as it could be construed as spam, and if so, -I apologize, I had no other means of contacting you. I just wanted you to know of someone who would likely not be complaining of resource hogging based on my past experience, IF it is in your price range.
I assume you are using the stock aggregator, you may also want to investigate feedparser as an alternative if you remain with the current host and problems are expected to be revisited. Again, I'm sure there are others in this category as well. Just my 2 cents, and depends on what info you are retrieving of course, and how it's scraped,parsed, etc.
Happy New Year to all the fine contributors and readers here.
Ahab Dreamscape (formerly in SL, still in the RL)
-The SS Linden left the docks long ago, -we now see Leonardo Dicaprio standing up by the bow, while the bean counters are at the helm. I trust you brought no valuables aboard.