Having a website crash is annoying, having it be down for a week is very, very annoying.
I have spent the last week trying to work out what had killed my blog (for the second time in a month). Initially I thought it was connected to the file server issues that Dreamhost was having, and their first support response suggested the same. But when they eventually got their issue solved my blog didn’t come back to life.
Its was strange because all my other Dreamhost hosted sites were working, and even my support forum was working and its under the same domain as this blog. The next suggestion was that it could have been the WP 2.1.1 exploit…but I hadn’t install 2.1.1. Anyway I upgraded to 2.1.2 in the hope that it would fix the problem…no.
Next step, and the one that I wanted to avoid, was to backup everything and do a fresh install of Wordpress. While in the process of backing everything up, I noticed that the wp-content/cache folder was rather large (about 59 mb)…which didn’t seem right considering my whole site is only about 10MB.
So….I delete the 800-odd cache files, and guess what. Now my blog works again. Shit hey? I have left wp-cache disabled for the time being, at least until I’m sure that I have the absolutely latest version. It would appear that the Dreamhost file server issue was not the problem afterall. Although the timing has to be more than just coincidence, perhaps the file server problem corrupted something in the wp-cache folder, thus brining the blog down.
Either way I’m back (again), lets hope this ends the bad run of problems experienced in the past month.
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I too had the same problem with wp-cache on dreamhost. I was getting blank pages on my blog. But they have a fix for this problem.
K2 in general is a little slow because of everything that is loaded with the theme, mainly the multiple JS files, and large css file.
But it does seems that they run a little slower on Dreamhost.
Hey Dean, I had a similar thing happen to me recently with one of my websites (they’re all Wordpress-powered sites hosted by Dreamhost.) I’ve since disabled wp-cahce on all of my sites until a newer version is released.
I am glad to see you back! As I mentioned on the forum and email, I too use not only DH but also your theme and love it. I have run into that same type (or similar) issue with the cache file so I blogged it as well. It was a real pain in the butt but I resolved it now and hopefully forever.
My post is here: http://weblog.techdad.net/2007/01/25/blog-updated-to-wordpress-21/
Can’t wait for your next release!
-HTD
Dean, do you notice that k2 loads slow with Dreamhost?
Most likely when the file server went down it caused your page to cache the same data over and over and over again, thusly generating the large cache folder in wp-content.
I have never been able to make the damn thing work on my site, so I guess this is just another reason why I shouldn’t really bother.
Glad you are back though.
lol!!
The simplist thing would have been to email feedback. The support guy would of helped your blog to FLAME ON!
I even turned it off and on again, emailed feedback, reset my parametric indexes AND called one-seven-hundred-zero but none of those helped either….
:p
These are the first 3 things I always check when something goes wrong:
1. I check the TCP/IP settings.
2. Enable cookies.
3. See if I want this dog.