I am working on the problem and will hopefully have B&P back up later today.
Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.
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Bella hits #1 on Reddit
Our Bella has the number one spot on Reddit’s What’s Hot page with her F**K CANCER hat. I don’t know how long it’ll stay there, but right now it’s number 1.
Bella is leaving for Vancouver for radiation treatments on Sunday. She’ll be gone about six weeks. She doesn’t think she’ll have internet access there, but I’m betting we hear from her at least occasionally.
Best of luck Bella! We’re rooting for you and look forward to your return.
Naughty Bits is here!
It’s been a long road, but Bad Bits has been reincarnated into Naughty Bits.
Due to many requests I acquired the domain naming rights to naughtybits.us. The Bad Bits link will take you directly to Naughty Bits. I’d suggest you save the new site as Naughty Bits, because I don’t know how long the Bad Bits name will stay. I have selected Dreamhost to host the site. The installation was the easiest I’ve had so far…. I didn’t have to call tech support once.
Naughty Bits will contain the things I’m not comfortable posting here on B&P. They’ll lean towards the humorous, gross, disgusting, sexy, indecent, irreverent, and perverted…. you know, the things you really want to see.
Header Logo: If any of you creative folks would care to make a logo header for Naughty Bits, feel free to do so. I can’t promise I’ll use it, but there’s a good chance I will. Header size: 150 pixels high and 1280 pixels wide. Try to keep the text centered and about 800–900 pixels wide because sometimes the ends of the header logo can’t be seen on smaller monitors or ones set with a lower resolution.
Thanks to all the loyal readers here on B&P, and thanks for the patience. Thanks to all who made suggestions about all my hosting problems. Special thanks to Adam over at My Confined Space for his advice.
Bad Bits update
Just to fill you in on some progress in restoring Bad Bits, I’m setting up hosting at Dreamhost. I’ve got that started and will hopefully be back up and running soon. I may end up having to start over with new posts. I’m not sure if I can resurrect what was previously there (I did make an ftp) copy of the files before I canceled service). But I’m not smart enough to know if that will just reload to the new host or if I’ll have to start over. Not too big of a deal either way.
Anyway, I did want you all to know that I’m working on it and hopefully it’ll be back online soon.
Bad Bits bit the dust
OK, it’s official. Bad Bits is history for the time being. The host, webmasters.com has said they will not reinstate the domain hosting unless I remove WordPress, which is what makes it run. So, I canceled service with them.
I’m now in the process of trying to find another host at a reasonable price that will allow the content I had there. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t see how a site that generates 7,000 – 8,000 hits a day (average) with spikes to 20,000, can’t run on a shared server. Bits & Pieces runs on a shared server and it gets more than 30,000 hits a day – every day. I’m using the same software and mostly the same plugins on both sites.
I’m not giving up on this. ( I had a busy weekend and had no spare time to really work on this, but things are clearing up now.) I may not be able to use the Bad Bits name, (because I canceled the service without unlocking the name) but I’m working in the problem.
Stay tuned….
Bad Bits assistance needed
I’m looking for someone to give me some assistance on the message I received from my host about badbits.us. The message links to a log of some “traffic” it’s receiving.
Most of those link to images on the site. A few link to some escort services. Not sure how those got in there. Could they be attached to uploaded images or something? Could it be a virus?
I haven’t installed the Super Cache plugin yet. I understand it can make a big difference and speed up a website. Could that make that much of a difference in server use?
I also think that having someone go over the code might be beneficial, but I’m not really sure how that can be done.
Here’s the message I got from my host:
Your account has been disabled due to crashing server 55 with the traffic being received on your wordpress site.
At this time we cannot re-enable your account unless you disable wordpress or get a dedicated server.
You can see the total traffic after reboot here:
http://s3.enemy.org/~mrfusion/
Unfortunately, your website has caused downtime for other clients on your server on multiple occasions, and we must take immediate action to disable your account in order to preserve the quality and integrity of our service. In order to re-activate your account, please confirm that you will correct the above problem within 72 hours from the time of this notice. Thank you for your cooperation.
Any ideas would be appreciated. I don’t know if I want them to turn it back on just to have it be shut down again. I need to find out if there is an internal problem. I don’t want to jump to another host just to run into the same problem again.
Bad Bits is down
Apparently the site is using more than 33% of the shared server space and that’s a violation of the terms of service. They say it was using 73% for more than 48 hours straight. Yet the host advertises unlimited data transfer and unlimited disk space. I guess data transfer is different than server percentage usage. They say I need to remove WordPress or get a dedicated server ($99 a month) before they’ll restart it.
I’m not sure what the future holds for Bad Bits.
Miss Cellania Action Figure
Miss Cellania got her very own action figure from the folks who produce Adventure Country on CMT.
Very cool!
I’m thinking Mr. Wonderful will be expecting to see a lot more action on the home front.
Congrats Miss C!