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Server Issues - Hopefully Solved

By Value Investing News on Mon, 2007-10-01 22:12

Some of you might have notice that Value Investing News has been offline occasionally for a few minutes at a time due to exceeding our server's CPU resources. Today, traffic was fairly intense and this caused major problems throughout the day.

I called up the 24-hour tech support line for BlueHost, our web hosting provider. A technician answered my call immediately and gave me some great advice on running this site more efficiently. I activated FastCGI for PHP and hopefully this will reduce the overhead associated with each page load.

Please let us know if you encounter any additional site outages by leaving a comment below.

George on Tue, 2007-10-02 20:36
Title: Site problems

Apparently activating FastCGI last night didn't work out so well. I received several reports today that my site was not working well. I disabled a caching feature that I hope was the source of the problem.

Does the site appear to be back to normal to you?

kenkid (not verified) on Tue, 2007-10-02 21:38
Title: thanks george, FPF and VIN

thanks george, FPF and VIN is back to normal now

George on Tue, 2007-10-02 22:27
Title: Thanks for the feedback on

Thanks for the feedback on the site status. I still have FastCGI for PHP on but I shut off the strange cache system my host provides. I guess I should have listened to their directions more carefully. I was just lured in by the advanced features. Those are always trouble. ;-)

VIN and FPF should be much faster now and less memory intensive according to what the tech support person told me.

George on Tue, 2007-10-09 23:38
Title: Another bug bites the dust

I just squashed another performance bug that was impacting the site when storylinks were being submitted. Hopefully, multiple submissions within a short amount of time will no longer knock the site offline.