Please Pardon Our Mess
The good thing is that Pokerati’s traffic is high. Apparently it’s kinda a big time for informed poker news and analysis and jimjabber. The bad thing is that my hosting package with Startlogic.com isn’t quite equipped to handle you all. So please stay away. Ha ha … I’m joking. We love you all. We need you all. But at the same time, the site seems to be crashing about once a day. Not in full, mind you … but the main central blog content is having a hard time appearing with regularity. This has something to do with mySQL or possibly some bad scripts I have running … or possibly with something that I don’t have a clue about. The internet, believe it or not, quite often is hard.
Anyhow, just to let you know, we are aware … we are working on it … and no, we don’t mind when you send us an email saying, “Hey Dan, Pokerati is down … are you in jail?” Gimme a week to clear this matter up, and in the meantime, when the site does seem relatively blank, check back later to see if I have hit the reset button and provided you with something new to read. Thanks much. That’s all.
NOTE: This site wouldn’t exist in its current form without the genius of The Fat Guy. He deserves all the blame credit.
Ed says:
October 28th, 2006 at 11:36am
Well I doubt it is a mySQL issue. We use it on a site that I bet gets 10x the traffic you do and have no issues like the one you are seeing. Poor code maybe? Hard to say without seeing it. I do hope you get it worked out because coming to a site I like and not seeing the main content is a pain in the arse.
Ed
DanM says:
October 28th, 2006 at 2:56pm
Ed, don’t quetion The Fat Guy’s coding. He is a genius in many ways. These problems didn’t exist until I put up a bunch of affiliate links.
Ed says:
October 28th, 2006 at 3:01pm
Oh…well that is usually #1 on my list of things to blame. Damn affiliate links. I am glad the one that took up the entire page before reading/commenting on a blog entry is gone. That one was annoying as hell.
Ed
Scott Chaffin says:
October 29th, 2006 at 12:39pm
Ed, the problem seems to be the number of MySQL queries that the hosting company allows in x minutes/hours/???. WordPress is heavily dependent on SQL, and particularly so with some of the widgets Dan has implemented to bring you this fine site. It’s a growth problem (the kind you like to have.)
And thanks for the kind words, Dan. My services are available to anyone on an ad-hoc basis at very reasonable rates (case of beer, bottle of booze, floozies.)
Ed says:
October 29th, 2006 at 10:08pm
Then the problem is easy to fix….new host time. 🙂
Ed
Mol says:
October 30th, 2006 at 3:59am
Can I wire money to your comisary account at the jail? Wouldn’t want you in the pokey and short on smokes or mac and cheese.
TommyTwoToes says:
October 30th, 2006 at 9:12am
i would be surprised if they cant turn the number up. sure they might charge you more but that is the way it all works.
and sense you have these types of limitations it makes it clear that you are sharing a server withother sites etc… i am surprised that you dont have a dedicated box for your site/sites.
the other thing that you could look at doing is combining queries per pagelike if eash one of the side bars represents 3-4 seperate queries you can reduce them down to 1-2 put the results into arrays then read them bac out. but that would require you editing the wordpress code. and not sure if you want to do that.
DanM says:
October 30th, 2006 at 5:41pm
dude, those things like cost a lot of money and shit. and for some reason, my current host won’t accept a deposit of love.
Ed says:
October 30th, 2006 at 7:10pm
I get a ton of stuff I don’t even use on my hosting service. I wonder if I could set you up with an account so you can do everything you need to do. They even have WordPress as a quick easy install. Anything to keep the site running 24×7…or 23×7 at least.
Ed