Back In Business

Many of you noticed that my blog was down. Thanks for the heads up. For some reason, it was pegging the CPU at 100% all of a sudden. Not sure why this was happening since nobody made any changes to the server. At least no changes they would fess up to ;).

I migrated the blog to a dedicated server courtesy of Rob Conery and still had the problem. Migrating allowed me to narrow down the problem without affecting anyone else’s site.

After much trial and error, I narrowed it down to the Recent Comments and Recent Posts controls in the footer of my skin. If you scroll down, you’ll see I’ve removed them.

So again, thanks for those who pointed it out and sorry to anyone who was inconvenienced (like me!) looking for information etc....

What others have said

Requesting Gravatar... Jon Limjap Oct 16, 2007 6:26 PM
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Glad to have you back! :) (and glad to have those login prompts stop popping out my pageflakes feeds :p)
Requesting Gravatar... Scott Oct 16, 2007 11:35 PM
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Ahh, the cry of the sysadmin during a crisis. "I didn't change anything, all I did was ... "
Requesting Gravatar... manovich Oct 17, 2007 1:45 AM
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What is wrong with Recent Comments and Recent Posts (just curious)?
Requesting Gravatar... Rob Conery Oct 17, 2007 3:16 AM
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Phil uses classic ASP for the Recent bits on his blog. Something about "preferring inline scripting" and "missing the old days". I remember suggesting to him that this could really bite him in the butt and he said "Dude - managed code SUCKS - inline's HOTT!"
Requesting Gravatar... Andy Oct 17, 2007 7:55 AM
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Looks like you've been hacked? :)
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked Oct 17, 2007 3:56 PM
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@manovich I'm not sure yet. I'll look into it when I'm back home.
Requesting Gravatar... Bargearse Oct 17, 2007 11:42 PM
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www.haacked.com doesn't work (throws an Invalid Hostname error). You (or the server monkey) need to add it to the virtual hosts thingo.
Requesting Gravatar... Jeff Atwood Oct 25, 2007 1:44 AM
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looks like you made the transition to the new server.. congrats!

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