Don’t you hate it when you make an error in a conf file and then the server works fine until you go to sleep, only to wake up and see that your server has been down for hours on end?

Yeah, I hate that too.

Anyways, it picked a reasonable time to be down.  Most visitors to site are in America and that would of made it go down between 11pm and 7am depending on where in America they were.  On a Sunday night that’s not so bad of a loss.

I am however glad that I have a cron job setup to “check the health” of my server though.  It was designed by my friend to help me survive getting slammed by traffic by kicking people off and restarting the web service so that new people could get to the site.  The bonus is that it determines server load by checking to see if it can load my site via the web.  So this morning I had 60 emails telling me that apache had restarted ever time that job had checked the site. 

I highly recommend a script like that to everybody who runs their own server.  Just cURL your own server with cron job and if unreachable restart apache. 

Anyways.  I have been adding lots of new features lately.  Most of them for my site moderators/admins, so it might not have been noticed by everybody else.  However site will soon be automated and have constant new stuff on it, as well as noticeable improvements in user experience and interaction with the site.

So everybody be sure to make an account on the site.  You login once and you will stay logged in for the next year so it shouldn’t be too much of a nuisance.  I am working to make Facebook, Google and Twitter accounts authenticate on my site as well.  Technically they already do, but I haven’t gotten them to “link together” with existing accounts, which I feel is important.  Still even though you don’t see it you can already connect to site with your Facebook and Google accounts.