What to do after some blog downtime
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by Nic on 20-08-2007
Tagged Under : DNS, downtime, server, Wordpress
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My blog (this one) has been down for almost a week now. What a mission, what a ballsup, what a pain in mine and Justin’s asses.
Initially we thought we were dealing with a server problem. Not so much.
Then we thought it was a DNS problem. Not so much (not so good after many email arguments).
Eventually Justin discovered that a plugin I was using was messing with things in a huge way. So we (when I say “we” I mean Justin) upgraded to WP 2.2 and deleted the plugin.
This seems to have worked and all that has happened in the interim is that I have dropped in ALL rankings EVERYWHERE. Oh well..
It was a refreshing break not having this blog on the back of my mind constantly. The break did come at a bad time though with many things to blog about that were extremely important and obviously groundbreaking at the time. Now, they are all meaningless!!
Anyways, here’s to a new lease on this blogs life. I am going to get back in to this blog and make things happen. I am going to plan my blogging like I do on SA Rocks and move forward from there.
Welcome back! Now stop fucking about and ignoring updates! Even I update within 24 hours of the latest release!
So what plugin was causing the problem?
Errr you mean the blogging at SA Rocks is planned out in advance? BWahaahaahaa! Yeah right?!!
Joking aside - its good to see you back.
Why’s it hard to believe that SA Rocks is planned?? Not all of it, but a lot of it is planned and prepared in advance!! I SWEAR!!
It was the stattraq plugin that was screwing with things. Which I didnt even use that often so it was deleted!!
Thanks Robert, at least someone missed me!!
Yes - go take a peek at the bottom of my blog. You will see the Stattraq error message. I have left it as is because it still works and produces the kind of stats I want. None of the other options available produce them like Stattraq can
The error is an eyesore especially in the Admin panel but it does not screw around with the articles and as it only throws out the error at the bottom of each page and in Admin, I can live with it.
I have tried to get WordPress to come up with a solution but they threw it back at me saying it is for the plugin developer to resolve. And as we know that the application is now with a person who is not the original developer, I guess I will have to live with the error message for some while!!
Good to see your blog up and running, thought you had deleted it or something!!! hope all is going well in jhb
cheers
Pete