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Lots of email complaints that the site is running slowly this morning — we know. The reason: our traffic has been very high since yesterday morning. As we write, there are more than 6,000 people online, and we had over 180,000 page views yesterday. We’re in discussions with our host ...
Just to see what happens, we’ve deleted a bunch of the IP blocking rules from our .htaccess file tonight. Since most bloggers don’t watch for (and block) robots and spammers as diligently as Stinky Beaumont does, I suspect we’ve been artificially deflating our traffic numbers in comparison to other blogs. ...
Possibly the stupidest thread ever at Fark.com, and that’s really saying something: FARK.com: Barack Obama refuses to release the names, addresses, and phone numbers of all of his former law clients even though major conservative blogs are demanding this sensitive information be given to them. The title, by the way, ...
Yes, the Fark kids are pointing and laughing again, and the surge of traffic caused our server to hiccup. We’re back online and the hamsters are working hard; meanwhile here’s that Fark thread: FARK.com: (3694134) Barack Obama’s community blog is flashing subliminal messages of an Islamofascist eagle taking a dump ...
LGF, Fark.com, Traffic, Leftists, Barack Obama, Presidential Seal
The good thing about getting a link at Fark is that since I spent a lot of time tuning our server and database settings, we no longer get knocked offline by the surge in traffic. The other good thing is that a link at Fark inevitably provokes another hilarious round ...
Why are they hatin’ on us so hard at Fark? They’re even posting that laughable years-old hack job by “Dr. Menlo” again (Late German Fascists — get it?) FARK.com: DNC hits rock bottom, continues to dig. It’s amusing to see them rant and throw tantrums every time an LGF link ...
Patrick Ruffini is investigating whether Daily Kos really gets the traffic they claim (500,000+ visits per day), and has turned up some pretty compelling evidence that their statistics are greatly inflated by an anomaly in Sitemeter’s traffic counting algorithm: Proof of the Sitemeter Anomaly. Here’s Patrick’s first post about this: ...
LGF, Daily Kos, Moonbats, Useful Idiots, Progressives, Traffic, Sitemeter
We’re having one of those back-at-work traffic spike kind of days, so here’s an open thread while the server hamsters give it their all...
Our server hamsters are sprinting like furry demons, because of a link at FARK.com. The initial surge of traffic overwhelmed Apache, but we seem to be clinging to connectivity now.
A link to LGF is on the front page of fark.com (and Instapundit, and Michelle Malkin, and others) this morning, and again our server hamsters are running themselves silly. The CPU load is very high, but we’re staying online so far. I’m monitoring the situation, and here’s an open ...
LGF was lousy with web bots this morning, using “zombie” machines compromised by viruses, crawling around the site like crazy, probably looking for email addresses to add to spam lists. They’re not finding any, of course, but they’re running up our bandwidth for no reason, so Stinky Beaumont and I ...
LGF, Technical Info, Blogosphere, Traffic, Statistics, Web Crawlers, Bots
We may have been knocked offline for a day and a half by the Hidden Hand of The Man, but we still made eBizMBA’s Top 25 Most Popular Blogs, based on an aggregation of several web ranking systems.
One of the nice things about having your web server logs stored in a database is that you can easily see where the traffic is coming from, on a real-time basis. For example, by running this query: SELECT ip, COUNT(*) AS count, referrer, useragent FROM `log` WHERE created ...
LGF, Technical Info, Blogosphere, Traffic, Statistics, Web Crawlers, Bots
LGF Janitorial Engineer Stinky Beaumont wishes to apologize for the occasional slowdowns and connection errors you may have experienced this evening. Stinky would like you to know that this time it wasn’t a traffic spike, but some deliberate benchmarking and testing that has to happen on a live system—or works ...
LGF, Technical Info, Blogosphere, Traffic, Makeover, Blog Engine, MySQL, Refactoring, Table Locking, Contention, Benchmarking
Why didn’t anybody tell me about these table locking issues (nooooo!) in MySQL? This is actually good news, because the overwhelmingly geeky page linked above helped me to solve an extremely annoying problem that has been causing sporadic, mysterious lockups at LGF since the database makeover. Who knew that there ...
LGF, Technical Info, Blogosphere, Traffic, Makeover, Blog Engine, MySQL, Refactoring, Table Locking, Contention
We’re back in action after a couple of server restarts; the hamsters in our database server were exhausted. Now they’ve had a little rest, and some lettuce, and they’re back in the wheels.
An update to last night’s announcement of the new compiler cache we’ve installed, eAccelerator: after watching it in action, and monitoring its performance with the included ‘control panel’ application (yes, I got it working at last), I’m ready to declare a large improvement in the page-loading speed at Lizard HQ. ...
LGF, Technical Info, Blogosphere, Traffic, eAccelerator, Compiler Cache
After a fair amount of Google researching, head scratching, and Emacs wrangling, I’ve installed a PHP compiler cache that should significantly improve the performance of LGF: eAccelerator. It works by caching the compiled versions of the numerous PHP scripts that drive our Blog Engine, eliminating the server-intensive compilation steps that ...
LGF, Technical Info, Blogosphere, Traffic, eAccelerator, Compiler Cache
The reaction to my idea for a feature that would show the currently logged in users was decidedly mixed, with many good arguments on both sides, so I’ve decided to hold off on this for now until all the ramifications can be properly assessed. Here’s another question for the Lizard ...
LGF, Technical Info, Blogosphere, Traffic, Makeover, Blog Engine, MySQL, Refactoring, Pagination
I’m continuing the overall security review and code refactoring of LGF, and there are some small but perhaps noticeable changes in our “Manage Your Account” page as a result. The first time you enter that page, you’ll be greeted with a login form. Once you sign in to the Account ...
LGF, Technical Info, Blogosphere, Traffic, Makeover, Blog Engine, MySQL, Refactoring, User Management
That was strange. Our server load shot up into the stratosphere, for no obvious reason. The system utility ‘top’ shows a number representing the server load over the past few minutes; a normal value for Saturday morning would be in the range of 2 to 4. As I was watching, ...
Yes, we have yet another change to announce. In our quest to conserve bandwidth and system resources, and keep LGF online as much as possible, we’ve now set up an account with Feedburner and changed the addresses of our two RSS feeds. There’s a redirect that will automatically forward you ...
LGF, Technical Info, Blogosphere, Traffic, Makeover, Blog Engine, MySQL, Refactoring, RSS, Feedburner
All I can say is, those poor, poor hamsters in server 1 are having a really rough time of it today. We not only have traffic still coming from fark.com, every lefty blog on the web decided to attack as well. I should have known better than to poke Murphy ...
LGF, Technical Info, Blogosphere, Traffic, Makeover, Blog Engine, MySQL, Refactoring
I’d guess that 90%+ of LGF’s readers aren’t aware that something huge happened here over the weekend. And that’s exactly the result for which I was hoping. The entire back-end LGF Blog Engine was swapped out, while the site was live. The whole thing. It’s a little like rebuilding a ...
LGF, Technical Info, Blogosphere, Traffic, Makeover, Blog Engine, MySQL, Refactoring