Outage
Some people who tried to reach the site this morning undoubtedly ran into what I did myself. A page showing that Blue Crab Boulevard had been suspended. After I got done screaming at the walls, I got in touch with the hosting company. It seems that the "Bad Behavior" plug-in for WordPress has been causing massively slow queries and the hosting company shut me down as a result. In order to get the site back up, I would have to switch to a very expensive high-CPU server or get the problem resolved with the Bad Behavior folks. (I have not contacted them as yet). But I chose to kill the Bad Behavior module for now until I can get the issue addressed. I may have to disable comments and trackbacks if spam becomes a problem, though.
Blogosphere, Geek Stuff | Gaius Tuesday, 12 June , 2007
By feeblemind, Tuesday, 12 June , 2007 @ 12:17 pm
I am not a geek so this is probably a stupid question. Can you switch to a more amenable hosting company or is that not an option?
By Gaius, Tuesday, 12 June , 2007 @ 12:18 pm
That is always an option.
By Bleepless, Tuesday, 12 June , 2007 @ 6:37 pm
Gaius, it is your blog, not theirs.
By Gaius, Tuesday, 12 June , 2007 @ 6:54 pm
Yeah. Imagine how happy I am right now.