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MT Load Times Resolved

Posted By babylon On May 27, 2008 8:43 PM In MT Performance | 1 Comment

As an update to my previous post, [1] MT Too Slow Loading Edit Screens, it seems I was wrong to blame MT for the problem. Today it’s taking less than a minute to log in and bring up a new entry screen. The culprit was a script on another site that was causing a server overload. I received an email from my web hosts, [2] Dreamhost, that said it was a guestbook script on a site of mine that they had to disable. Disabling it brought the server load down from 8 to 2.

It appears as if spammers were simply hammering the script, causing instability on your server. Taking a look at the guestbook itself, it seems to have bloated to 146Mb of link spam. I would suggest removing this feature entirely, or using something with greater anti-spam capability in the future.

Don’t you just love those spammers!! The offending website was [3] Junee Magic, a site I set up in 2005 when I was considering website design as a career. It never really took off and I ended up with a “real” job that paid real money but I left the site up. I think it’s time to take it down now. If someone actually were to contact me to design a website for them I really wouldn’t have the time to do it.

I wrote an apology email and thanked [4] Dreamhost for finding the problem, and have put some serious thought into what I’m going to do with Junee Magic. The site has over [5] 230 javascript and dhtml code snippets with examples of all the scripts, besides offering website design.

I considered another blog, with a script a day, but it wouldn’t last a year and I really don’t need another blog. I could start a script category on an already established blog I suppose. If you have any ideas, let me know.


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