Ah Phooey! One of those days.
Posted by Kirk M on 04 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Misc posts
Turned out to be one of those days, today. You get up, chock full ideas, subjects to write about, research you want to finish, comments to answer and what happens?
Absolutely nothing.
Well I did mange to answer a few comments and meander over to a few blogs I wanted to visit but that was it. I was sidetracked trying to find out, yet again, why comments suddenly took a minute and a half to post when they were posting fine before. I’ve been round and round with this more times than I can count. I’ve done everything on my end to try and remedy this annoying situation including backing up everything and then wiping out the entire WordPress install and starting from scratch. No change in the problem was seen but now I can say for certain that it’s not WordPress causing the problem.
So banging into my cPanel, I find, once again, that it’s the "send mail" function that’s locking up the works. WordPress sends out the correct request and it gets stuck at the server level. Kill the process and the comment posts–no problem. Calling my host’s support, I present my case once again (they actually are really good, it’s just "one of those problems") and it’s another ticket, sent to the administration this time. The problem with this type of "glitch" is that it’s random and it doesn’t throw any type of error or log entry so there’s nothing to send to my host or that they can look at in the server’s logs.
It’s just this particular server, I know it. No other WordPress blogger on any of my host’s other servers that I’ve talked to have this problem and if I bring this up often enough, my host’s techs will get it fixed. They never give up.
Anyway, for the interim, I’ve turned off all email notifications related to comments with the exception of the "Subscribe to Comments" plugin so that comments will post in a reasonable amount of time.
And that’s my complaint for this week.
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on 05 Dec 2007 at 2:20 am 1.Cat said …
Can I say it?! I love being on wordpress.com…
It also seems like your StumbleUpon icon in the social networking line has buggered off..
on 05 Dec 2007 at 4:48 am 2.K8 said …
Yep. Internet speed and workability is in direct inverse proportion to personal inspiration. It sucks.
on 05 Dec 2007 at 12:52 pm 3.KirkM said …
Hi Cat,
Of course you can say it and you shine where you are. I, unfortunately, am one of those geeky type idiots that love working their own install. Even worse, I’m one of those older geeky type idiots that never learn. However, I’ll be truthful and let you know that I’ve been eying WP.com for another, totally different type blog. But don’t tell anybody.
on 05 Dec 2007 at 12:54 pm 4.KirkM said …
Hi K8,
Oh, that’s good! May I use that? Please? I’ll put it the sidebar (without the “it sucks” part) and add a link to your site even. Please?
on 05 Dec 2007 at 1:07 pm 5.Cat said …
I like wp.com, but there are a few small things with it that have been on my mind lately. I shall blog about that at some point.
on 05 Dec 2007 at 1:19 pm 6.KirkM said …
And I’ll be reading it whenever you blog it.