06/04/05 01:41 - ID#30089

Server Died from Overload

So (e:shawnr) asked me last night if the server could deal with lots of visitors from far away if he put a link to his journal on other sites. I thought it would be ok. Well on boing boing, there were apparently too many visitors. I think it is because boingboing is a news syndication hub and the links were flying in from everywhere. I guess it is time to start caching because thousands of vistors per hour, is too much for the mni VPS.

Unfortunetaly, (e:shawnr) is gone now, and the only way to deal with this was to shut down elmwoodstrip.com altogether. It currenlty redirects to google's homepage. I don't know how else to deal with it because th referer links are all over the place. From a million rss feeds. I tried rewriting from the htaccess file when the users looked up shawnr only and it worked at first but soon enough, people started removing the u=shawnr from the end of the url and it got killed again. Eventually, I had to just redirect all elmwoodstrip.com info away from the site.

Someday, I would like to test the site out on a really robust server. For now just visit elwmoodstrip.org.

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 06/04/05 13:45

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06/03/05 07:39 - ID#30088

Browser War

The browser war begins. The site has begun tabulating the number of visits per browser in a most obvious way. You can see the percentages in the upper right hand corner of the site. The posiiton might move, but it is constantly analyzing the number of visits and the type of browser they come from. It elimates bots and other erroneous visits pretty well. In the future I may move it to just a percentage of the toal from firefox, ie, and safari. Right now collect IE 7, IE 6, IE 5.5, IE for mac, firefox for all, safari, netscape, konquerer, and opera.



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06/01/05 07:42 - ID#30087

Sidewalk Chalk

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/01/05 12:23 - ID#30086

Updates Again

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Location: Buffalo, NY

05/31/05 11:32 - ID#30085

Email Scam

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Location: Buffalo, NY

05/29/05 08:27 - ID#30084

Update Number 600

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Location: Buffalo, NY

05/29/05 12:45 - ID#30083

Updated the user statistics page

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Location: Buffalo, NY

05/25/05 10:44 - ID#30082

Many new speed fixes

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Location: Buffalo, NY

05/14/05 11:07 - ID#30081

Updated Cell Phone Functionality

You finally can log in on a cell phone and post without having to use email. You can also read entries, read an e-poem based on the journals called, "A Million Excuses" and see who else is online. You can also read the chat and read your (e:message) when logged in.

I will continue to add new features soon. You can get here at elmwoodstrip.com/wap or 3pad.us/wap





>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 05/14/05 23:08 >>Updated By: paul 05/15/05 00:18

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05/13/05 09:49 - ID#30080

Donations

Thanks to (e:scud) and (e:Drchlorine) for donating to the estrip fund. I am going to make a page with bricks that you can have your name on.

On another note I moved the address for wap to shorter addresses. I will begin to offer more service there soon. Right now you can check the latest entries and see who is online from any WAP enabled phone.

The addresses are

http://3pad.us/wap or http://elmwoodstrip.com/wap

There is no need for the www in either.



>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 05/13/05 09:59

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