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12 Hours of Downtime Today But NO MORE in Future

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Nov
9
2007

OK, this site was down for nearly 12 hours due to “extremely massive server resource abuse” by one of my WordPress scripts. The useful but problematic script that is always abusing the server resource is “Translator“. The plugin provides automatic machine translation of my blog in different languages. This has happened a few times and frankly I am sick of it! I’ve transferred my domain to a more powerful server but it’s still not strong enough to handle all requests.

I have no choice but to upgrade my server to a Dedicated Server. The migration will be carried out within these few days. It is not the most powerful dedicated server but it should be able to support my website for quite a while.

One thing I am really worried about huge down time is, will it mess up any rankings(keywords, PR) for my site? After a little searching, I found out from Berghausen, a Google Webmaster Central representative that we should consider returning a ’503 Service Unavailable’ with a ‘Retry-After’ header indicating when we expect our site to be back up. This is a more by-the-books way of explaining that your site is down for maintenance, and you can still send along a page explaining the error. Under most situations, Googlebot will not index your error page, and will come back looking for updates some time after the date specified in the ‘Return-After’ header.


Please refer to BlogStorm on how to return a 503 service unavailable with a retry-after header. I was too busy trying to get the website up and totally forgotten to do this. I will remember to do this IF there is a downtime in future.

By the way, this downtime happened around 1AM +0800 when I was asleep. If I was awake, I would stay awake to try to get the website up as soon as possible. To prevent this from happening in future, I’ve signed up for Pingdom, a service that monitors website EVERY MINUTE.
Monitor Website Uptime
If there’s a downtime, Pingdom will automatically send me a SMS alert and also email me.

I really hope that there will be no more such long downtime in future after migrating this blog to a dedicated server and having Pingdom to monitor every minute. Do leave a comment if you have any suggestion on what can be done to avoid site from going offonline.

I do have some great articles coming up. So stay tune and sorry for the downtime!


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    • XoX

      Raymond,
      I need your help! SORRY 4 asking question here.

      How do i copy my DATA which contain chinese charactor to CD/DVD?

      Bcos the chinese charactor will became %^^%&^$#^$%#&**%^&^(*& instead of 梁詠琪-給自己的情歌 .

      I did change my NERO to chinese version but it became ??????? ??????? ????

      What shall i do???

      TQ in advance

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      Do you know that there’s a forum for you to get help? Moreover, this article is not related to your question at all!

    • http://www.rxpg.com bgm

      hey i’m very happy 2 see the blog again online. its really a very helpful blog. especially the virus protecion/removal based posts. great work..

    • Varun

      No problem Raymond!..i m a big fan of ur blog..read it everyday..8 hrs downtime is ntn..i’ll keep myself updated of ur blog even if its down for a month!..u have helped me in so many ways..

      Cheers..

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      Thanks guys. That’s really nice to hear.

    • http://www.thetritech.net Shay

      Glad to see the blog back up and running. I got a real shock this morning when I went to refer back to a previous article and found an error 403. Hopefully there will be minimal downtime in the future.

    • MR7

      Yey, it’s back. I’ve checked in 3 computers and 6 times during the day, thought something bad had happen. Glad it’s okay… :)

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    • http://www.mininova.org KDEme

      No comment

    • Colin

      Hi Raymond, I experienced an Error 403: Access forbidden on Friday. I send an email to FeedBlitz. They told me to email you, but alas, I do not have an external email address for you. I’m glad the situation rectified itself within a few hours. Good luck with your dedicated server.

      Best Regards

      Colin

    • http://www.rudigee5@yahoo.co.uk rudi

      hello raymond,

      i honestly need your help as i keep getting this popping up on my desktop

      nminddexstoresvr.exe, i dont know what it is or how to get rid of it.

      please please help,,rudi

    • http://www.rudigee5@yahoo.co.uk rudi

      please help raymond

      ta

    • Amrit Lohia

      Rudi,I found this on processlibrary.com and it may answer your question:-
      “nmindexstoresvr.exe is part of Nero Scout that comes with Nero CD/DVD Burning 7 or 8. Nero Scout is a database program that catalogs all of the media files on your computer and that makes this database available to other programs in the Nero 7 or 8 product package.”

    • https://www.monitorscout.com Claudia

      good post..It is very important that your web site is accessible for your customers, users and visitors. A web site that is frequently inaccessible is likely to lose you business and destroy customer loyalty.

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