11 October 2006Continuing tweakageInasmuch as Technorati is giving me the Claude Rains treatment of late, I've replaced their search box with one of Google's it's in the "Usage notes" area on the frontpage sidebar which should produce marginally more reliable results. Actually, I'm happy with anything that produces results at all these days; just about every day, there's a half-hour (more or less) period when this site is all but inaccessible. If it happened at the same time every day, it might be a bit more understandable, but no. I assume that it's related to lingering Dreamhost issues that are being gradually addressed. On the upside, response time has improved markedly in the past sixty days, though at least some of that is due to reducing the size of my database by 95 percent, an idea for which I claim no credit. Posted at 7:30 AM to General DisinterestTrackBack: 9:38 PM, 15 October 2006 » Dave Sifry is one heck of a guy… from The Gleeson Bloglomerate ...and his blog-tracking website, Technorati, is the bee's knees. Way better than his chief competitors in that field -- namely, Google's Blog Search and that other 0ne. Dave is good-looking too; he looks kind of like that French ......[read more] "just about every day, there's a half-hour (more or less) period when this site is all but inaccessible" I noticed this also, although it seemed like longer than a half-hour. I thought you were just avoiding me, in some high-tech way. Posted by: Mister Snitch! at 4:52 PM on 11 October 2006There seems to have been a pair of them today: one lasting 54 minutes, and another running 39. |