After suffering a complete, catastrophic failure early yesterday morning (my time), I went into panic-mode. What had caused it? How was I going to fix it? When would it be fixed?
After some back-and-forth emails between myself and Dreamhost over the past couple of days, I have finally managed to get back online. Their first couple of suggestions had no effect what-so-ever on my problem. The problem was apparently that I was using too much memory on the server I am on, and their “process managment software” was automatically killing my blog, so that it didn’t shut down everyone else on the shared hosting.
The solution in the end invloved me setting up a new user, which would only be used for this site, all other sub-domains etc would stay where they were. I then had to copy everything from the old user to my hard drive, and then from my hard drive to the new user. Surprisingly just about everything seems ok following the move.
One thing that isn’t back (yet) is the support forum. It didn’t like the move so much, so I’m still working on that. Fixed (yay!)
All the messing around to get back online has kind of ruined everything else I wanted to get done over the weekend, including working on the next release of Redoable, and working on a new non-Wordpress related project.
To add to all the weird things that have happend in the past couple of days, my Alexa ranking actually went up yesterday (a new high position of 27,652) … now I ‘m really confused as to how Alexa work out their rankings. My site has be out of action for the best part of two days…it will beinteresting to see what the ranking drops to tomorrow.
In other ego-boosting news, Redoable got listed on Smashing Magazines “83 Wordpress theme you probably haven’t seen”, that article has recieved over 2000 Diggs already, and the amount of extra traffic it pushed my way (trust me I looked at my error logs) is great, its just a real shame my site crashed around the same time….coincidence….hmmm…
Fingers crossed that everything is ok now.
