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.

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4 Responses to Outage

  1. feeblemind says:

    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?

  2. Gaius says:

    That is always an option.

  3. Bleepless says:

    Gaius, it is your blog, not theirs.

  4. Gaius says:

    Yeah. Imagine how happy I am right now.