Announcement
Popdirt.com - Now Powered By WordPress
The last few days regular visitors have no doubt noticed the new look at popdirt.com. It was long overdue to convert off the dinosaur that is php-nuke as the site’s platform, but the hassle and which alternative to select and what converters were available made me put it off. The old interface was riddled with [...]
Comments Briefly Disabled
Due to the huge spike in traffic today, caused likely by the Lance Bass gay announcement and/or this site being rated #1 on google for Marion Raven’s new R rated ‘Heads Will Roll’ music video, I’ve disabled the comments to save on server load. Comments will be reactivated when the traffic level drops back down. [...]
Popdirt Blogroll
More friends:
Young Hollywood
Jeanette’s Celebs
Fatback And Collards
Farandulista
Cityrag
Buzzfoto
Bellezze Gossip
Popdirt.com is introducing a blogroll feature. If you have a gossip or pop music related blog in English language, have an Alexa 3 month rating of 300,000 traffic rank or better, have a Google Pagerank of 4 or above, and have a blogroll where links are visible on every [...]
Friday’s Server Downtime
On Friday, our server experienced mutiple fatal Linux kernel errors and the server had to be reformatted. The server had been down several times in the past few weeks after our 2.6 Linux kernel failed, and the 2.4 Linux kernel failed but was at least rebootable until Friday’s crash. The process took much longer than [...]
Comments Temporarily Disabled
Due to the massive traffic spike most likely because of Janet Jackson’s breast-baring moment, the comments feature has been disabled. The server currently is overloaded and hopefully later this week, when the hype surrounding the incident dies down, the comments feature will be restored. Thanks for your patience.
Popdirt.com Gets An Upgrade
The site has been upgraded to the latest release of PHP-Nuke 6.0 and I’ve also reworked the layout/theme. If you have your settings still on another theme, you may want to check out your account settings and check out the new one. I’ll leave the comments on for now, but if the server overloads again [...]
Comments Disabled Due To Excessive Server Load
The server load that comments are putting on this server are unmanageable. I’ll try upgrading to the latest version of phpnuke soon to see if that improves it, but I likely will put in forums instead and just redirect comments to the forum. The comments posted were causing my server loads to spike above 50.00, [...]
Old Article Comments Deleted
The article comments have been putting quite a load on the server for this site, so I deleted all but the past couple of months worth. Hopefully this will help the server from getting overloaded as it has been again. You can do your part by actually commenting on only the story — only once, [...]
Database Error Occured
If you registered an account sometime before 6 AM EST Tuesday, then you’ll have to re-register. Also, all comments were removed during that period. There was an error in the database that occured sometime today when the server was overloaded, so rebuilt the database based on the save earlier Tuesday.
Comments Disabled During Peak Hours
To keep the server load down and prevent further crashing, I’ve been disabling user comments during peak traffic hours (ie. weekdays during working hours). The site will be moving to a larger server in a couple of weeks so this won’t be a problem in the future.
