My web host has informed me that the server CPU load hit 99.9% because of trackback spam sent to this website.
If it continues tomorrow (which is likely), my account will be suspended indefinitely. I have to do a lot of things to fix it and back up all my data. And that of everyone else hosted on my account.
See you around – hopefully when I’m next back online.
I’m pleased to announce the arrival of The Daily Weblog’s new category newsfeeds, for those who only want to read about a certain topic in their newsfeed readers. Cheers to the girlie matters for this very useful tip (among many others).
Vantan.org has been added to the links list of a new Second Life blog which happens to be in Italian!* Thanks! This blog has also been linked on Honeyfly, which is another geek-music-Mac blog. I feel like we’re relatives. The first Singapore Second Life meetup was blogged about in Global Voices last month. Thanks Preetam!…
Pah. I tried re-installing Brandon Fuller’s MTValidator plugin and kept on wondering why it no longer worked on my site. It would say my pages were invalid when most of them were in fact, valid. Then I looked at the requirements list and discovered that I had an older version of Perl. Not assuming that’s…
Yikes. I noticed that new posts using MT3.2, didn’t get published as individual archive pages, but only as news feeds and on the home page. So please excuse the broken links while I try to fix this – or get my web host to help. [Update: Web host says it’s a problem with the .htaccess….
When I get home tonight, I am *so* going to upgrade this system to Movable Type 3.1. Yeah. [I’m back. Upgrading commencing shortly. Many weird things may happen to this site, which you will completely ignore. It may take a few days, even a week, for all changes to be implemented because I really don’t…
Weird things have been happening on my blog. As I haven’t even had time to tinker around with it, it obviously wasn’t my doing 😛 Firstly, [Strangeknight](http://strangeknight.wordpress.com/) told me that my blog was down. I checked, and it was. My web host told me they were restarting the server. But Strangeknight also told me he…
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You could just rename the trackback CGI to something else, and then the CPU load should go down, don’t you think? It’s cheaper to serve 404s than to run a CGI; no extra processes spawning.
Hey Ralph, that’s what I did in the end. Was too lazy to do anything else more drastic 😛