Traffic spike
TweetSomehow this site became the top Google result for two different searches, “Shogun2.dll appcrash” and “fedora 14 gnome3″. My theory is that Google’s indexing the referring keywords listed in the widget on the right, causing a snowball effect. But the rise in traffic this year has been dramatic, especially for a site really about nothing.
How does paid blogging work?
TweetI’ve been hearing for years about paid bloggers. If people are getting paid to write their crap down in an ad-supported industry, it seemed like it might make sense to throw some ads up on this very site to see what happens. I’ve had Adsense running on this site for a few months now and [...]
5,472 ms
TweetI signed up with Pingdom to monitor my website. They have a free service if you just want to monitor a single site, and since I only have one site, this is perfect. Since this server gets knocked offline all the time (thanks LIPA) I figured this was a prudent step. However, Pingdom also offers [...]
We gon' party tonight
TweetI use Akismet to filter out spam comments here, and I’ve seen a few different strategies the spammers employ. There’s the “Cool post! You should Digg it” (in both English and Spanish – tengo que Digg), there’s the “this post helped me on my class project,” there’s the pure jibberish – “xajdjhesbjsb sjhsjhrhjshwru skjskjrijsjs.” But [...]
Forcing WordPress administration over SSL
TweetI never like typing a password into a non-SSL site, no matter how trivial it is. In order to give my own site this ability I simply used mod_rewrite to force requests to WordPress’s admin pages to go over SSL. The .htaccess file for the site looks like this: # BEGIN WordPress <ifModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine [...]
Sped up WordPress by adding 1 index.
TweetI noticed WP was taking a long time to load since I moved it. I added an index to the “autoload” column on wp_options and it seems to be much faster. I still hate MySQL though. Postgres is so much better.
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