Archive for February, 2009

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02/24/2009

by Colleen Doran on February 24th, 2009
Posted In: A Distant Soil Webcomic
02/24/2009

Today’s webcomic was brought to you by Bonnie Vitti whose patronage of A Distant Soil has provided four days of web support. Thank you!

A $20 purchase or donation supports this website for one day.


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Comet Lulin

by Colleen Doran on February 23rd, 2009
Posted In: Blog, Science

Tonight.

Go have a look.

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02/23/2009

by Colleen Doran on February 23rd, 2009
Posted In: A Distant Soil Webcomic
02/23/2009

I uploaded this page as a gif which is much higher res than the web jpg, but lower than the regular jpg. We’ll see if this has any effect on the cpu load. Something tells me it won’t. I also think it looks good. Any comments?

To ease the load on the current server, until we have solved this problem (and it won’t be much longer), I will not upload any other graphics except for our daily comics installment. No sketches, illustrations or photos for a few more days.

I will continue to load articles.

And since I just lost a freaking huge load of work to trying to deal with this cpu problem, as well as over a week to sick time, I need to get back to Gone to Amerikay right away. I need a few days off from posting anything new except for comic pages.

Today’s webcomic was brought to you by Bonnie Vitti whose patronage of A Distant Soil has provided four days of web support. Thank you, gracious Patroness!!!

A $20 purchase or donation supports this website for one day.


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Hm, let’s try this…

by Colleen Doran on February 22nd, 2009
Posted In: Blog

I just spent a couple of hours reloading my images at lower res. Quite a long ways to go, but on the whole, I’d say they look OK.

If this solves the load on the CPU problem, dandy. If not, it looks like I will need to move to another server.

I’ve reloaded all of the February A Distant Soil pages, but now have to do January. I also have to redo all the older posts (ugh.)

The site does seem to be loading faster. If you guys have no complaints about image quality, I am cool with the lower res.

Three hours later…Who am I kidding? they look like crap. I can’t stand me when I try to be Pollyanna. The low res pages look like crap. There, I said it.

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My Host Server has a problem…

by Colleen Doran on February 22nd, 2009
Posted In: Blog

Well, everyone loves the new blog but my host server.

I have received several letters of complaint from him over the last week about the traffic and the strain on his cpu. He is CORRECTION recommending that I get a dedicated server for my website. That would cost $260 a month.

Since we are not getting significantly more traffic than we did in any single month last year, I do not know what the heck the problem is. He is saying the new site simply uses so much more memory that he must dedicate an entire server to it.

He clarifies here because he says I do not understand what he is telling me, which I think I have also made clear, as I don’t know what the problem is.

“If I thought a vps would do the trick for you I would have recommended it. I sell vps servers also. They are much cheaper than a dedicated. They are NOT powerful enough or will be considerably slower than what you are currently enjoying.”

He continues: “I personally believe it is the way the wordpress blog is doing something. I really don’t know. Lots of folks use wordpress on this server. I use it for two of my own personal sites on this server. Heck, I recommended it to you in the first place and got you off that phpbb message board. I’m a fan of wordpress. But something is screwy on your blog that is causing a large cpu spike each time someone visits or clicks on any link on your blog.”

I have no idea why the new site would use so much more memory than the old one did. Is it the ads?

Any suggestions? Am I simply going to have to move to a different hosting service? If so, got any ideas?

So, since we have always had good service from this server, I have had no complaints in the past. We just don’t know what’s going on. I’ve redone ALL my images to be lower res.

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