Server Hop

January 11, 2008 | 4 comments

I’m having my account at A Small Orange moved to a different server, due to how problematic the Tom server has been recently – too much downtime! During the DNS propagation, you all might see the old site or the new one. It shouldn’t take too long for the technical bits to straighten themselves out (especially if you use OpenDNS, which you should), so – see you on the other side.

Update: Move is complete. The server is up, but alas – I’m still running into damn near constant timeout problems. I think my time with ASO may be coming to a close. :(

Update: Hmm. On a hunch, I just disabled WP-Shortstat, due to how slowly the stat page runs usually. Clicking around my site quickly didn’t cause any timeouts, so maybe it was Shortstat slowing down the MySQL. Can slow-running MySQL cause a site-wide timeout? Would that make sense? Any code geeks ’round here?

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  1. zhayena’s avatar

    zhayena on January 20, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    Which version of shortstats do you use?

    And have you optimized your db lately?

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  2. Josh’s avatar

    Josh on January 20, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    The name of the plugin under the Plugins screen: WP-ShortStat (by Markus Kaemmerer), version 1.12a.

    Regarding database optimization – how would I go about doing that? I dropped a bunch of tables that were created by plugins I no longer use, but beyond that, I don’t know how to optimize it.

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  3. zhayena’s avatar

    zhayena on January 21, 2008 at 3:59 am

    There’s a new version of ShortStats 1.13 you might download and try.

    If you use phpMyAdmin you just do “check all” and pick “optimize” (instead of “drop”) from the dropdown select thing.

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