Sorry about that

by Robert Koehler on June 16, 2006

Blog was down momentarily owing to a self-inflicted .htaccess issue. Things should be back to normal now.

Shout out to Bluehost for the help.

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 sanshinseon June 17, 2006 at 12:46 am: how DARE you deny us our hourly fix of yap…
2 Richardson June 17, 2006 at 1:31 am: Have you ever had any of the same issues with Bluehost as with LunarPages concerning PHP processes and their servers?

We aren’t ready to jump this instant, but would like to know about hosts that can handle a simple WordPress blog and a few plug-ins w/o servers almost crashing (and our site going down!).
3 Robert Koehler June 17, 2006 at 1:37 am: Nope. Haven’t had an issue with Bluehost at all (knock on wood). And I got plugins running out the ying-yang. They seem pretty solid so far.
4 Richardson June 17, 2006 at 3:45 am: About how many times a day do googlebots hit your site? Each page they ‘hit’ generates a PHP process (or more) for that page. At the time we were getting 20k+/day, aside from thousands of comment spam (caught by Akismet, but that’s still a PHP process for each spam denied-Bad Behavior now stops spam before they can rate a PHP process). These days we get ~5-12k googlebots hits. Seems excessive to me.