[This post should be read while listening to Also Sprach Zarathustra, op. 30 by Richard Strauss]
The blog has been migrated to a dedicated server. If I did everything correctly things should work pretty much like before. You should notice faster page downloads during peak loads. Hopefully no one will receive a "Service Temporarily Unavailable" message anymore due to lack of capacity. I made one minor change to the comments to streamline page loading – I got rid of the avatars that used to accompany each comment. The avatars were slowing things down under heavy load so I decided to kill the avatars in favor of performance 🙂
Thanks everyone for your patience during the last few days while we experienced some growing pains.
"I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you." – HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey
So THAT’s what it’s called! lol.. I usually recogizethe songs but usually do NOT know what it’s called! even my 3 yr old likes it..( yes dear..fun drums)
Good luck and if only there was an opus of the avatars..they served us well! I mean ..you! haha.
oh no, I am requested to ‘outclick’ to the teletubbies’ aargh…
later!
Ingrid
Ingrid, I miss the avatars already 🙁
That music just isnt the same without an ape brandishing a big bone in one hand! :d
It did add to the personality of the blog…well..all good things must come to an end..looking forward to the new and ‘improved’ version..
Ingrid
I gotta wait and play the music when I get home from work later this evening. :((
Great choice of pic and music. Funny thing though, to play the music my Real Player shows the last thing I was listening to as it’s loading. How about “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath? 😮
Hal, open the door, Hal!
Zebster, I’ll save Sabbath for my next Bush massage clip 🙂
Robbie, you are missing the whole multimedia experience of this post. Next time I’ll work in 3-D glasses. :d
Ingrid, I am looking for a way to bring the avatars back. But the plugin I was using was really bogging down the page on the server side when there were a lot of comments. If I have time, I’ll write something myself.
Incidentally, nobody has answered the REAL question. Does anyone notice a performance improvement?!? :-ss
Sorry, yes…a fair bit.
I’ve got a blog in the back of my head that’s basically wrapped around the lyrics of “The Fletcher Memorial Home (for Incurable Tyrants and Kings),” if you know it.
yes, I’m a Floyd fan! :-c
That song is rather appropriate now isnt it.
Yeah, maybe the timing couldn’t be more perfect. Maybe I can manage that tomorrow while I watch and blog about the Brit Open.
Have you seen my less serious blog, All Things Zebster?
Thanks, Mash et al. I needed a dose of higher ideals. Wow. I liked the avatars, but hey, I can always use my imagination. I’m back in nursing school, and have no time to blog, but draw inspiration from sites such as this. Pardon my lurking.
Well, I put the blog about The Fletcher Memorial Home, though I cheated. Very little commentary and just let the lyrics tell the tale.
Dedicated servers are the best when you want a stable webhost. ;*,
dedicated servers are the best stuff that can host your traffic hungry websites;,~
dedicated servers are the best type of web server that you could possibly get but they are a bit expensive~-.
when you want to do some heavy content and traffic on your website, you will really need a dedicated server `:;