SPWD

I have posted a few times in the past in regards to several server issues I have experienced with the server I use to host this site and a few other domains I own. In that regard, this is an update post.

I am still experiencing issues with the server, and I still have the new server to swap it out with. I just have not had the means to do so yet. The issue I keep having is a kernel issue involving swap space. Just this morning while typing a post, the server started to lockup and started kicking errors. Luckily I had an SSH session open that allowed me to kill some services, perform a reboot and get things going again. I am not always that lucky.

As part of that, I will have to add an additional point to the post Why I Fail At Blogging. Another part of the reason I don’t promote as much as I could, nor post is server reliability. You don’t want to start getting tons of traffic, or even a moderate level of traffic if your hosting server is not reliable. Nothing irks me more that trying to get to a site and having it load slow, or worse, not at all. With that, sometimes publishing a post is painfully slow, problematic and makes the entire blogging process