Comments on: A technical hiccough

By: Rob Briggs

Rob Briggs — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 18:28:02 +0000

Do ya think you were sabotaged by the new Mormon Life Blogs hosted by John Bytheway/Michael McLean which is here: http://deseretbook.com/mormon-life/blogs/?blog_id=1

Nice, but I know where I’ll be staying.

By: D. Fletcher

D. Fletcher — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 03:35:54 +0000

I haven’t been able to get in to this blog for hours and hours. Since about 3:00 pm today, until 30 minutes ago (10:30 pm).

By: Bryce I

Bryce I — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 00:15:35 +0000

William Morris–

I’ve had the same problem using Sage/Firefox PR1.0. I’ll look into it if I get a chance.

By: William Morris

William Morris — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:53:35 +0000

On a related note:

I’m getting an XML parse error for your site feeds. Of course, I’m using Sage (a Firefox plugin) to find and manage my feeds, but is it possible that something’s gone wrong on your end?

This has been a problem for awhile so I’m pretty sure it’s unrelated to your current server issues.

By: Steve Evans

Steve Evans — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:43:32 +0000

ha, hah!

By: danithew

danithew — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:33:11 +0000

Bah, got that on the wrong thread.

By: danithew

danithew — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:31:39 +0000

I hated using the term extremist in my post because there’s nothing scriptural about it. Maybe I should ask if anyone has an idea of what word(s) the scriptures would use to describe the concept of extremes, extremists, etc.

Perhaps we could refer to some extremists as “scribes and Pharisees” as Jesus did in Matthew 23. The verse that came to mind is the one where Jesus sarcastically (or caustically) criticized them by saying:

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. (Matthew 23:24)

And then you have your famous “good extremist” Phinehas, in the Hebrew Bible, who knew just what to do with the couple that was enjoying a bit too much PDA in front of the tabernacle. (Numbers chapter 25)

By: Kaimi

Kaimi — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:10:52 +0000

Ebenezer,

Not a bad theory, but not supported by the evidence. For one, we are getting zero traffic from that proxy link. (I was surprised by this). Take a look at the stat meter (which is public) — I just looked and saw no hits at all from venturpreneur over the past 100 referrers (which is all that you can see). We’ve probably gotten a slight bump from them, but nothing significant.

Second, even if we were directly Instapundited, we could handle it. An instalanche gives anywhere between 500 and 700 extra hits on an average day. Today — a very high-traffic day — it’s giving Gordon an extra 800 already, and will probably go over 1000 by day-end.

We can absorb that. We generally run between 1300-1500 per day; we’ve had days close to 2000. Our host isn’t perfect, but we’ve got 19 GB of transfer (and we use it!) and we generally don’t have problems with links the size of an Instalanche. (We’ve had big spikes in that past, such as when we were linked from Bainbridge and when we were linked from exmormon.com ). Not that we’re impervious — if we were ever slashdotted, for instance, we would doubtless crash in a millisecond — but the political blogosphere doesn’t command that level of traffic — yet.

By: Steve Evans

Steve Evans — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:00:40 +0000

Well, well — you’re back up. I guess that shows me how quick T&S can respond to BCC’s DoS attacks.

By: Silus Grok

Silus Grok — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:49:20 +0000

Will you update the back-up site with the status warning?

http://www.timesandseasons.blogspot.com/