It’s disheartening when I see blogs disappear, go 404, totally vanish because the author closed up shop. I’m a big fan of blogging as a great activity to do, a good thing to keep doing. I want blogs to persist because I believe in them. I’ve had this domain for 25 years and have been …
Category Archives: Phaysis
Kill All Serial Scrapists
Yesterday, I saw this site was timing out with HTTP 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable) and I couldn’t access my WordPress blog. Whut? I logged into my shared hosting shell, looked at the server logs, and saw I was being hammered by some scraper bot. So of course Apache’s mod_security was throttling my site and returning …
Twenty Five and Life
Always amazed at my tenacity to keep this domain name, now for 25 years. At a quarter century, and almost half my life, it’s become part of my identity. May as well get the logo tattooed on my arm. I’m certain that if I ever let this domain go, it’ll be snatched up by porn …
Oooopcaaache
Turned on a cache plugin. Website go brrrrr?
Twenty (Ph)our
user@host:~$ whois phaysis.com Domain Name: PHAYSIS.COM Updated Date: 2024-02-26T04:32:19Z Creation Date: 2000-04-14T14:49:59Z Registry Expiry Date: 2025-04-14T14:49:59Z 24 years is a good long haul, longer than my time in Austin. It’s little anniversaries like this that make me feel my age. They make me look back across the timeline for visions, sounds, emotions, vignettes of events, …