Server issues!
Thursday, October 9th, 2008Dreamhost and my website and having issues co-existing. Up until recently, I hadn’t cracked down on some hotlinking of my images, and they were being requested like crazy. So my solution was to finally do what I should’ve done long ago: disable hotlinking of images.
My webserver is run by Dreamhost, which honestly has been a great web provider and really hasn’t given me issues until now. However, since I’m on shared hosting, they have to load balance their servers with special script killers. For instance, if my site begins hogging up too much resources via PHP pages, the script killer will kill off the process, resulting in a 500 Internal Server Error.
The thing is, the script killer seemed to not only kill the process but kill the original PHP script as well. This resulted in this blog as well as my new one-entry developer blog being completely broken. It also killed off some other PHP scripts on my site, including the home page, which is dead simple, but uses some PHP includes. As a result, most of my website remained inaccessible for probably way too long. I have been busy lately with school and work, but I was really neglecting this site!
Anyhow, things seem to be under control now, but I’m still trying to get stuff up and running.
In the meantime, my WWI Air Combat site seems largely unaffected, which is strange, since it runs on the same server and uses custom PHP scripts that I built to run it.