As an update to my previous post, 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, 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 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 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 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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