Blat News
Author: Mike
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Seems like my attempts to fix the database have only made things worse :(
Yesterday afternoon, after making changes to the binary logging (as reported in the previous post), the Blat database went down again. So, last night I spent about three hours looking at various settings on the MySQL database. I tweaked a few settings, and was running a process monitor to try and...
Database problem fixed - I hope!
For the last few months I’ve been struggling to work out why Blat keeps displaying a “Error establishing a database connection” message. It’s been a real nightmare to try and track down, because the error message would only be displayed intermittently, and it would only...
Blat bloggers! Add your blogs to myScoop.
A new (I only found it this morning, so it’s new to me) blog aggregation site, similar to the now dead Amatomu site, has been opened up at http://myscoop.co.za/index.php. Maybe some of you would like to add your blogs? myScoop still looks a bit rough, and it probably still needs some work,...
Did Blat bloggers notice a sudden reduction in spam comments?
Over the last few days I’ve been playing with a few different “tactics” to cut the spammers out of Blat. My previous attempts, IP address blocking, were pretty ineffectual, so I adopted a different approach. Last night, to fully test the new “tactics,” I removed all...
Blat server hardware upgrade
I’m busy investigating how much it’ll cost to upgrade the processor in the Blat server. When I ordered the server from The Planet, almost two years ago, there was an admin mixup and I got a server with a slower processor than I wanted, but they did give me more RAM. Anyway, I’m...
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