Server Problems and More
Published Wednesday 21st of September 2011
You may have noticed the site's been down a few days (weeks even perhaps) and because I've been a bit lazy it's taken me 'til today to fix it.
Me and a couple of mates have had our own VPS for a while now but a while back it suddenly went down and because there's really nothing crucial on it no one's been in the mood to sort it out.
Today I set up my own brand new server and will start using that for future projects. I've also spent the evening backing up data from the old server.
When doing the DB-dumps I noticed that one of my sites (one I've completely stopped working on ages ago) had gone from a 300kb dump to a 30mb dump in a matter of weeks. Which is most likely the root of our problems.
I was using a modified version of Jonathan Snook's spam checker and apparently the damn bots have now found a way around that too. Luckily it has yet to affect any of my other sites using the same spam tool.
Anyway, I got into the cleaning up spirit and decided to drop quite a few of my sites. In fact I deleted all my personal projects except for this site and will be moving a couple of other projects away from the server (and aFramework) soon as well.
The reason I've taken down a-framework.org (along with the demo and bugtracker) is that I've started work on the new version of the framework; SleekPHP.
My plan for the future is:
- Move all sites off the old server
- Archive aFramework and all of its sites
- Convert andreaslagerkvist.com to SleekPHP
- Remove old server, have only andreaslagerkvist.com and sleekphp.com on new server (both running SleekPHP)
The biggest problem is converting this site to SleekPHP. SleekPHP's engine is pretty much finished but I haven't built any of the many sites that come with aFramework yet (like aCMS and aBlog etc). In fact, I haven't even set up the DB-stuff in SleekPHP yet.
I'm not sure yet whether I should try to create at least something basic to put on this domain before I remove the old server or if I might just let andreaslagerkvist.com rest for a while and then reboot in a few months with the new framework (and most likely a new design as well). I guess I'll lose all my Google ranking in that time but wtf all that leads to is bug reports on jQuery plugins anyway :P
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