The LGF Makeover project, intended to help us stay online even if/when a huge-traffic site like Drudge Report links to us (or Digg, where the Diggbats continue to furiously bury every LGF post), is proceeding. Almost all of our logging functions are now being handled by the MySQL server; this eliminates several hundred thousand file accesses a day (no exaggeration) on the main web server (the one you’re looking at now), which should help quite a bit at peak traffic times.

(And yes, every bit of data that comes from outside LGF is sanitized to within an inch of its life before being added to the database. Security first.)

I’ve also finished converting the LGF Blog Engine’s Lizard Overlord tool to use the new MySQL version of our registration database; this important component of the Blog Engine lets me monitor registrations, correlated with posted comments and other undisclosed bits of data, to make sure none of the hatchlings are actually moonbats with antisocial tendencies.