Archive for June, 2007
Blocked OperaMini
This is a sad day as I have had to block OperaMini from accessing my site. Opera Mini is a service that lets normal cell phones use the Internet. See http://www.operamini.com/help/faq/#mini . In short, the Opera Mini servers fetch Internet content — including feeds — and displays it suitably for cell phones, all on behalf [...]
Planning your hosting
When discussing web sites, we all talk about getting the content right, this in turn leads to better chance of getting traffic and obviously planning the content is important. One thing that doesn’t appear to be mentioned that often and can be extremely important if the content does its job and attracts a lot of [...]
Increased server capacity, lost traffic
This is a strange one. Over the past month the traffic to my site has been growing nicely thank you, reaching 140,000 visitors last tuesday. This was causing my server to overload so I thought I would get a 2nd server and use round robin DNS to rotate the traffic between the two servers. So [...]