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Museum of Hoaxes is Moving
The Museum of Hoaxes will soon be moving to a new home at a different web hosting company (pMachine hosting). This may cause a slight disruption in service (fewer posts) over the following week as I make the switch. At the very least it might mean that the site will temporarily be at a new url (one of those urls that are just a string of numbers) until the internet domain name servers reassign museumofhoaxes.com to the new web host.
The reason for the move is that over the past few days all of the server-intensive functions of the site (such as being able to post and edit entries) froze up, apparently because of increased traffic. I'm not sure what the cause of the traffic spike was. Looking at my referrer logs it seems that the vast majority of the traffic is coming from the google and yahoo search engines.
Anyway, the server couldn't handle the load... or rather my web host restricted the amount of server queries my site could make, so that my site wouldn't hog the server's cpu... which meant I suddenly was having trouble posting entries. It all gets a bit technical. The long and short of it is that the site has evidently outgrown the server it was on, so it's time to move to something a bit more robust.
I'll keep everyone posted about how the move is going.
The reason for the move is that over the past few days all of the server-intensive functions of the site (such as being able to post and edit entries) froze up, apparently because of increased traffic. I'm not sure what the cause of the traffic spike was. Looking at my referrer logs it seems that the vast majority of the traffic is coming from the google and yahoo search engines.
Anyway, the server couldn't handle the load... or rather my web host restricted the amount of server queries my site could make, so that my site wouldn't hog the server's cpu... which meant I suddenly was having trouble posting entries. It all gets a bit technical. The long and short of it is that the site has evidently outgrown the server it was on, so it's time to move to something a bit more robust.
I'll keep everyone posted about how the move is going.
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Categories: Miscellaneous Posted by Alex on Sun Jan 23, 2005 |
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This article might be the source of your extra traffic.
Posted by Jane on Sun Jan 23, 2005 at 01:56 PM
Hmm. That article is at least four years old. I remember when Martha first wrote it. She contacted me. Encarta must periodically recycle old stuff. Anyway, I noticed a lot of hits coming from that today, but the traffic spike began much earlier, on Thursday.
Anyway, whatever the source of the traffic, I need a server that won't go belly up whenever traffic increases, especially since April Fool's Day is coming up, which always causes a major traffic spike at this site.
Posted by Alex in San Diego on Sun Jan 23, 2005 at 02:02 PM
Anyway, whatever the source of the traffic, I need a server that won't go belly up whenever traffic increases, especially since April Fool's Day is coming up, which always causes a major traffic spike at this site.
Was it something I said?
Posted by Hairy Houdini on Sun Jan 23, 2005 at 03:00 PM
I feel a disturbance in the force...
Posted by Nick in Merrie Olde Englande on Sun Jan 23, 2005 at 03:08 PM
I actually think that article Jane mentions is how I find your site, and that was only a couple months ago.
Posted by James D on Sun Jan 23, 2005 at 03:59 PM
Help us, Alex Ben Kenobi... You're my only hoax.
Posted by Hairy Houdini on Sun Jan 23, 2005 at 03:59 PM
...as if a thousand hoaxes cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
Posted by Alex in San Diego on Sun Jan 23, 2005 at 04:24 PM
Promise you'll come back!!!! 
I'd be so sad without you!
Posted by Glamcat on Sun Jan 23, 2005 at 06:24 PM
I'd be so sad without you!
From running my own websites, Google searches only increase for two reasons:
1. a. The algorithm has changed.
1. b. The math in it has changed.
They did recently do a major revision; that could be it. Or, the spidering system has picked up more links to your site. 1.a. would explain a large, sustained spike froma sudden origin. 1.b. would explain a slightly less obvious spike.
2. Plain old word of mouth. More folks are talking.
Buddy? People pay good money (millions) to make 1.a. and 1.b. happen.
Congrats. Enjoy it. Adjust your advertising guidelines.
Posted by Google = word of mouth on Mon Jan 24, 2005 at 12:51 AM
1. a. The algorithm has changed.
1. b. The math in it has changed.
They did recently do a major revision; that could be it. Or, the spidering system has picked up more links to your site. 1.a. would explain a large, sustained spike froma sudden origin. 1.b. would explain a slightly less obvious spike.
2. Plain old word of mouth. More folks are talking.
Buddy? People pay good money (millions) to make 1.a. and 1.b. happen.
Congrats. Enjoy it. Adjust your advertising guidelines.
Three phrases should be among the most common in our daily usage. They are: Thank you, I am grateful and I appreciate.
Posted by penis size in Saint Louis on Wed Nov 23, 2005 at 08:30 PM
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