A few days ago I made a post about technical difficulties. Well, it’s still going on and I’m still trying to fix them.
I’m currently at a bit of a loss and wish I just bought the domain name instead of hosting too. But unfortunately it cannot be helped now and I need to go on and figure out what on earth is making the site so damn slow.
I made a little change to my RSS feed, I signed it with feedburner, this in order to purge all the requests that came through from it and they should now be going through feedburner.
It can be found at http://feeds.feedburner.com/AlwaysaNoob
Other than that I’m checking out logs, playing with my wordpress plugins and everything to try and determine where the error is. Luckily the people from the hosting company have been very patient with me and my questions towards them. Problem about not hosting it on my own servers means that I can’t access all logs so I need to forward my remarks to them. I honestly thought I fixed it on saturday but alas, no such thing.
What I did notice, after checking out the stats is that there seems to be a huge influx of visitors in the past few months. Although I honestly think that there must be a mistake here.
According to the providor’s stats, over 20k unique visitors checked out my site in December. Now, this would be an awesome and amazing thing. IF not for the fact that the months before that, only 150 people checked it out. And I very much doubt that there’s even over 1000 people reading this stuff.
I know it can be interesting to read, but honestly, with that many viewers I’d expect more comments!
It does seem that most of the views came from the /feed page. Hence another reason to use feedburner, that way I can analyze it too.
But if you’re here, feel free to say hi! I love knowing that people read my ramblings. I’ve gotten mails ingame too in the past, don’t be shy, say hi 😉
I apologize if the slowness effects your reading pleasure, I assure you that I am not liking it one bit either.
Stay tuned o7
Looking good all the same, but not noticing any slow processes. For a blog though you don’t need your own hosting as such, and if its a shared server, it could be the other users sites that are making the whole server slow. You should be able to ask your host how many account are on your server if it is really that bad and ask to be moved server. A good host will do that for you.
Well, it’s not that I really needed it, I wanted it. And it is in fact shared hosting, but according to them it’s on my end. So I’ve been debugging for the past couple of days trying to figure out the issue.
I’ve been trying a lot of things, we’ll see if anything works in the end.
Slowness, I personally notice it if it takes me longer than a few seconds to load the page, which annoys me 😀
I noticed that too as I started looking at more pages. Shared hosting is common, but a host will never want to admit it is their fault. You could try making it sound like a suggestion to try moving you to a new server. Just a quick check I can see that there is only 50 other sites on your server.
Yeah I’m pretty sure it’s partly my own fault too. The hosting has a soft limit on resources. For example 3mb/s input/output. For some reason, the RSS feed was refreshing every other second, hiking that number way up. Thus the hosting puts a limit on resources for 24 hours.
After fixing that, one of the plugins I wasn’t even using was giving problems etc etc.
Good thing is that it keeps me entertained at work too.
o7 Still reading 🙂 Best of luck!
o7 Thanks!