$ whois phaysis.com Domain Name: PHAYSIS.COM Creation Date: 2000-04-14T14:49:59Z 26 years I’ve owned this domain. It really lives up to its tagline: “Phaysis.com. A Frozen State of Change” (alternately: “Like Watching Grass Grow”). This has been my home for most of my adult life. So much potential, so little change. Like my real life. “So …
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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 …
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?