Domain Name Wire experiences FIFO syndrome.
Accountants out there know what FIFO means — first in, first out. Domain Name Wire experienced its own version today, as the order of articles on the site were reversed. If you landed on the home page you saw the very first posts ever written at the site, back in March of 2005.
That’s a little embarrassing, given that the quality has improved remarkably since then. Worse, many RSS readers started receiving these old posts.
It turns out that my webhost upgraded PHP or MySQL, and my version of Wordpress didn’t work with this. Thankfully, I was able to quickly upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress thanks to a great development group in Brazil (If you ever need a project outsourced to great developers at low rates, let me know).
I also added a new feature. When leaving comments, you can check a box to be notified when someone adds a new comment to that post. You no longer have to worry about people disagreeing with you but you never finding out about it 🙂
On a final note, I need a new webhost. My current one complains whenever I get a spike in traffic. It even suggested I turn off my RSS feed since it “seems to be using lots of resources”. It’s nothing personal against them, but I need to move on. I’m willing to pay more for some sort of dedicated hosting solution, or any solution that gives my unlimited peak CPU and traffic usage. Solid Uptime and 24×7 support are also required. Basically, I don’t want to have to worry about the site being down. Please comment if you have a recommendation.
Scott Fish says
I would try mediatemple.net as a host. I run about 200 sites on my media temple account, they’re all find when traffic spikes hit.
Techcrunch uses MT, and many other big traffic heavy sites.
Arvind Reddy says
Hi. You may want to try http://www.Dathorn.com.
Regards.
Arvind
ParkQuick says
Dedicated hosting from almost anyone will probably solve the problem. I did this recently when my host complained. Traffic spikes will still slow down your own server, depending on the resources you are paying for.
Andrew says
What dedicated hosting do you use?