After several days in limbo, we appear to be back in business. Crooked Timber now has its own dedicated server, which should mean that we don’t run into the same problem again in future. Kieran, who is our resident guru for all things technical, has rejigged the setup, and installed a plugin which should reduce server load substantially in the future. We are grateful to you all for your patience – we owe a particular debt of thanks to the CT readers who generously donated money to help us get back up. Between those donations (which have been applied exclusively to CT’s running costs) and our own resources, we are now on a pretty good footing. In retrospect, this is something which had probably been in the offing for a while. We now have quite a large readership, which we’re extremely grateful for, but which also means that we now have rather greater technical needs than we did when we began this enterprise back in 2003. Again, thank you all.
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Kieran Healy 03.22.05 at 10:19 am
Test comment.
Kieran 03.22.05 at 10:21 am
This is another test comment.
Barry Freed 03.22.05 at 10:35 am
Sheesh, peeps, I was really beginning to worry there. And to wonder:
If a Crooked Timber fell in the blogoforest, would it make a sound?
How would we know without its erudite philosophers guiding the discourse. Welcome back.
Jeff Roberts 03.22.05 at 11:07 am
Thankfully you’re back! I was getting worried that I might have to return to working on my PhD!
Jacob T. Levy 03.22.05 at 11:21 am
Welcome back!
Michael Froomkin 03.22.05 at 11:39 am
Details! Please!
1. What sort of traffic brings Dreamhost to its Movable Type and/or WordPress knees on shared service (i.e. when should I start to worry?)
2. What plugin makes WordPress less lethal?
cloquet 03.22.05 at 11:41 am
test
gumbo limbo
Kieran Healy 03.22.05 at 11:44 am
Details:
1. About 10 thousand unique visitors a day, with heavy use of RSS feeds, and a couple of spikes from, e.g, links from Atrios did it for us. This was partly because we were doing quite a bit of markup on the fly with the Textile plugin.
2. “Staticize-Reloaded”:http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/staticize-reloaded/
cloquet 03.22.05 at 11:45 am
It’s the season for gumbo limbo trees to lose their leaves.
cloquet 03.22.05 at 5:20 pm
Does Crooked Timber have an official website tree, or where does that picture come from that is in your logo, and what species?
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