Wacky Database Madness
Posted on March 31, 2008 Posted by John Scalzi 5 Comments
My WordPress seems to have momentarily not wanted to speak to my database. It seems to have corrected itself. Who knows if it’ll happen again. But if you suddenly can’t connect here, that’s what it is (naturally, if you can’t connect, you won’t see this message on the front page of Whatever. But I send it out, perchance to send it along the RSS grapevine).
I love news like this –
SQUIDPUNK!
On a related note, I’ve yet to see this notice on the RSS feed. But I saw your twitter note.
I saw it on the feed – hours later. And I thought I should mention:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
It’s what it says it is: a super version of WP-Cache that will actually generate static html pages (temporarily) so that you aren’t even loading php when people get the cached version. Might be helpful for a busy site like this.
Jemaleddin:
In this case, it was an issue with the server the site was on — the whole thing went down, not just my site. Cached pages wouldn’t have helped.
No, I just meant that it might be a good idea in the general sense. For instance, not having to load php quite so often would take load off the server, which might prolong its uptime. :-)
John you big tease,
You mention database madness and neglect to name the database? Nerds everyone want details. I want details!