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 …
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Unstuck
Addendum to the previous post: My music domain glassdoor.net has finally been transferred to the new registrar. The issue was apparently on the destination side. I filed a support request for someone to take a look and it was resolved within 30 minutes. Seems the transfer got stuck at a specific stage of the state …
Handprints and Horses
I think I need a new project. Should probably ditch Drupal on my music site. It’s nice, but shitty on a shared webhost environment. Too heavy. Maybe go back to static HTML files, like in the stone age. Fastest way to see cave paintings. Drupal, see, it’s like going to the cave and asking the …