Man, I'm busy!

I've been so busy that I've ignored the fact that my website software is WAAAY behind. No biggy, so what really. I get paid zilch to run the website and couldn't care less if it crashed for a few hours... days. Only, I'm kind of in the internet business. People drop in on this site ever once in a while. And, crashing the site was bad juju. So, I grabbed a backup and threw it on a new server.

I should be embarassed to admit this, but I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 on the server that used to run JasonN.com. Yeah, that's old. And, I don't even want to talk about the SQL version I was running. Sick thing is, I've got a local publication using that server that's still humming on it. Anyway, I've moved JasonN.com to a new server and need to move it to a permanent system that's a bit more robust. If someone diggs me again, I'd like to stay online.

This takes me to content management systems. A friend, Matt Fuller, once told me I should just write a content management system for my needs. That way it would work the way I wanted it to, fast and clean. Well, I didn't take his advise. And, that's exactly why my site suffers when the traffic hits about 10K an hour. That's not that much traffic for a website, but it's killer on a poorly supported database. I just don't have a lot of RAM and that version of the dB is sluggish, being kind.

Well, I'm in the web application business. I think I'll address this issue some time soon. The CMS I'm using for my clients works fine, so long as you throw a LOT of box at it. And, fortunately, I can do that for commercial, profitable sites.

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