Sorry for the mess on the server over the last couple of days. It has been receiving a lot of (genuine) traffic that its resources has been exhausted poor thing.
I’ve ordered a new and more powerful server and the migration is to begin shortly and we will (hopefully) gracefully transition to the new server over the next 2 weeks. Hang tight. Hopefully a more powerful processor and the latest versions of Apache and PHP will handle the increase in load nicely.
The server is obviously more expensive, now costing $315 per month, so if you want to help defray the costs, either advertise yourself – yes I have revised the pricing and various packages are available, talk to me if you want specific sizes or ad campaigns, I’ll remain flexible. If you don’t want to advertise yourself, then get a 4-pound hammer and go convince one of your business friends to advertise and I’ll pay you a nice, fat, commission. Contact me for details.
Now to lessen the load on the server a bit more, especially if you read the site through an RSS news-reader, please be aware that I have activated a FeedBurner feed, so use that instead of the usual Xaraya feeds which I shall de-activate to conserve bandwidth and power.
The FeedBurner RSS blog feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/MahmoodsDen, please do start using it.
Rock on!
Comments
Server overload
You ought to do a 301 redirect to your feedburner feeds (its what I do).
Something like this should work:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^theme=atom$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/MahmoodsDen? [L]
Just do that for every URL that is a feed that you want burned. Mind, you do need to leave open one system feed for feedburner to check. In addition, you want to change your auto discovery tags in the meta block.
Re: Server overload
Ah! I was wondering how you did it. I just went into default.xt and changed the header components, but when I look at the available feeds (even AFTER I’ve disabled both the RSS and ATOM themes) I get a huge number still available. Here are the ones discovered by bloglines.com:
So I have to basically do a redirect to every one of these?
Re(1): Server overload
Yes. For some reason the bloglines bot gets it into its head that a feed is there (and there could well be one) it will want to download it, regardless of how many folks have subscribed. It only takes a few minutes to do and check, but it will save on the bandwidth considerably…
Re(2): Server overload
I bet it would considerably reduce the bandwidth consumed… I’ve got to run some experiements to optimise the site… will let you know how it goes along.
Re(3): Server overload
BTW, you need to leave your rss theme on so feedburner has something to grab;)