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Get My Tweets WP Plugin Released

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

getmytweets_logo2I have officially created my first WordPress plugin and widget, Get My Tweets.

While there are other plugins that do similar things, display your recent tweets on your WordPress powered blog, this one makes special use of PHP 5 and the XMLReader extension. So in other words if your hosting provider does not meet those requirements, you will not be able to use the plugin.

There are only two options for the plugin, Twitter user name and numer of tweets to retrieve. The user name supplied must be set to have the time line be public in order for the plugin to parse the xml file from Twitter.

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Ping list updated – test post

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

I have removed all the URLs in my ping list and will now post this and check the CPU utilization during and after the post to see where the httpd process ends up. It seems odd that posting would cause this, but nothing else on the server causes this, including other WordPress installations. The only difference that I know of outside of a few plugins is the ping list contents.

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Update to HTTPD processes running wild

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

I just updated the previous post by simply changing the title from Mblogging to Moblogging. Needless to say I ended up with about 30 httpd processes, three of them going defunct and two of them eating up 98-99% of CPU availability. Hmmm…..

I am going to try something, as when I post from this blog (I host several other blogs and they seem to be working just fine) I have a rather lengthy list of ping services that I send pings out to. I am wondering if maybe this list has some bad entries in it that is causing the traffic to bounce back and forth or something otherwise causing it to start trying to load several processes to handle it, thus bogging the server down by utilizing the CPU.

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WordPress Hosting

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

So I am looking at putting my new server online in the next few weeks finally (after some unforeseen difficulties outside the server). I was thinking about offering WordPress hosting – $3.95 per month, with email, 5gb storage for images etc, and 1g bandwidth – it would be ideal for users wanting to host a proprietary domain WordPress (as opposed to a free hosted one) and should prove cost effective. If the bandwidth limit is exceed it would be a nominal charge to purchase additional bandwidth as it becomes necessary to do so.

What does anyone who read this think about the idea? I would sell them as an annual package only for the main account – $47.40 with no setup fees. Then if the bandwidth is exceeded it would be an additional $1 per GB per month. Anyone think it is a good idea? Bad Idea? Any suggestions? Leave a comment and let me know.

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