From Wit’s End

Well, shoot. I got a nasty-gram from my webspace provider that I was using too many CGI resources and overloading the MYSQL server (whatever that means, it basically means I was breaking their little piece of the internet.) They shut down my website for a few hours yesterday afternoon and evening until I took out the offending code from my front page. After some experimentation, I figured out that it was mostly the code that rotates the banner pictures at the top of the page. (Reducing the number of posts on each page from 50 to 25 helps also.) So the picture at the top will be static and unchanging until I can figure out a more resource-efficient way of having them change. If the slowness of it depends on the sheer number of banners available for the rotation, then I should be able to fix it fairly quickly. Otherwise, it may take a while. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

UPDATE 07/27/07: Well, it turns out that the scoreboard on the left sidebar of the impersonal site was what was causing most of the trouble. So until I can fix it, I’ve resorted to the sidebar widgets to make a more “standard” sidebar. The end of it will be a page that loads much faster, with a link to the scoreboard instead of the scoreboard itself.