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.
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….
Easter Sunday we took a drive down to some old stomping grounds. This is where my parents lived from the time my dad retired until he died. It was 56 acres in southeast Missouri about 110 miles south of the arch.
There used to be a mobile home between the trees (in this picture) that they lived in. The small building on the left was the utility house where mom (Grandma Chick-Chick) canned vegetables from her garden and quilted.
We built this barn about 35 years ago. I don’t think it’s been touched since then. The pipe in the background is for highway construction in progress. They’re turning a 2 lane highway into a 4 lane divided highway. It’ll take some of what used to be their property but not the barn.
Dad spent a lot of time here, in the garden, in the chicken house and in the woods. He was at home here. We’d come down and visit every other weekend. My kids had a lot of fun here riding three-wheelers and learning about the outdoors and country life.
Then we went on down to Greenville MO to visit my parents graves.
Gus rode about half the way in this position across the center console. He likes to be up close next to me.
While Trixie was content to ride in the back on a beach towel.
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.
Gus meets Trixie for the first time. They seem to get along good. I got Trixie from the shelter. The woman there said I saved her life. She was found in a nearby town and no one claimed her. I took her to the vet to get her rabies shot and the vet said she is about two years old.
She’s a Wire Terrier mix. I think she’s got more mix in here than Terrier.
Her coat just changes from wiry to smooth right in the middle of her back. She kind of looks like somebody took two half-dogs and glued them togheter.
She’s very gentle and sweet and seems to be a good mix with Gus. But she’s only been here for an hour.
Way back on March 31, 2002, the first Welcome to Bits & Pieces post appeared. Posting was sporadic then. as a matter of fact the first content post wasn’t until April 3rd of that year. 2004 only had a few posts all year, one of which on August 12th, was the first post to have an image in it. It wasn’t until March of 2005 that I got serious about posting regularly. (I just noticed that some of those early post’s images are not showing up now. I believe they may be lost for good.)
Well, eight years and 24,655 posts later brings us to today. It was on January 28, 2008 that B&P moved to it’s own domain that you see today.
Thanks to all the other bloggers without whom this blog would be all about Gus and Charlotte and hundreds more pictures overlooking the river. And thanks to you, the loyal readers, some who have been here for years, and to the newest readers who have just discovered B&P.
A special thanks to the readers who comment and have turned B&P into a worldwide little neighborhood. You make doing Bits and Pieces still fun after all these years!
My friend Derek Brink is a musician who has three CD’s now available on iTunes.
Grounds Things I meant to say Out from the light
Derek’s CD’s on iTunes Click this link to preview or buy these albums or songs.
Derek’s website where you can download a couple of his songs and purchase his CD’s.
Note: Derek is a longtime fan of B&P. He even mentions B&P on one of his CD’s insert.
John Walkenbach, author and blogger extraordinaire over at J-Walk blog, has proposed a meeting over pizza when he visits St. Louis next month.
Sounds like fun.
He’s gonna try to get me drunk and squeeze some blogging secrets out of me.
He even posted a pic of me on Mel’s bike.
