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PowerSwitchJames
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 Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject: Reason for the site being down this morning |
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For some reason the host didn't process the payment.  Bah. Working again now though!
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Eternal Sunshine
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Your cheques bouncing then? 
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RenewableCandy
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Either that or they're onto us...
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Andy Hunt
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Maybe your bank's gone bust.
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Mean Mr Mustard
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| Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:02 am Post subject: |
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I'll chip in with some barter goods at PeakSpeak4. 
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jmb
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Location: Kildare, Ireland
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:37 am Post subject: Traffic increase |
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James,
There looks to have been a significant traffic increase in the last couple of months, which might be relevant - sending you some mail about it separately...
cheers,
jmb
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PS_RalphW
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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I'm getting a suspicious request to run the add-on
'QuickTimeCheck Scriptable Object' from Apple Computer, Inc (unverified publisher)' on every page of the powerswitch site. Is this a new feature or has the site been hacked? There are some dodgy viruses around that infect web sites to get unpatched visiting computers. |
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jmb
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:24 am Post subject: |
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Well, I've added a few lines of tracking code to the site - Google Analytics, and a similar free tracking system phpMyVisites- which both use JavaScript. If your browser is complaining about scripty things, that's the most likely cause.
Are you using a Mac? I don't, myself, and haven't tested how the site behaves with one, but the message you're seeing sounds rather like an Apple browser warning of scripts in the page, and giving a chance to avoid running them.
Alternatively, perhaps it's down to Google Analytics' newfangled tracking code. I could try reverting it to the old-style urchin snippet...
I'll have a dig around and see if I can find a more solid answer for you. In the meantime, if there's an option to say "No thanks, and stop asking me", feel free to hit that button - it's not likely to cause problems with normal site functioning...
Thanks for the report!
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Looks like it's the phpMyVisites tracking code that's the problem - and I think only for Internet Explorer 7 (are you using this?). The product's been fixed, I think, but we have a slightly old version from the hosting provider.
I've removed it, leaving only the Google Analytics code. Is it behaving for you now?
-jmb
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:05 am Post subject: Some statistics from Google |
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Looks like Googlebot is being very busy looking at the Powerswitch site...
Number of pages crawled per day: max 30107, average 16048, min 2108
Number of kilobytes downloaded per day: max 1827836, average 857537, min 109836
That's an average of 26G a month just for Google crawling - and increasing! If the trend gets up to that "max" figure, that's 56G a month...
-jmb
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:21 am Post subject: Compression of forum traffic |
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I've turned on an option to compress the forum pages in-transit. You shouldn't see anything different - if you have problems, please let us know...
-jmb
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PS_RalphW
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:53 am Post subject: |
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| jmb wrote: | Looks like it's the phpMyVisites tracking code that's the problem - and I think only for Internet Explorer 7 (are you using this?). The product's been fixed, I think, but we have a slightly old version from the hosting provider.
I've removed it, leaving only the Google Analytics code. Is it behaving for you now?
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The problem was on my home PC running IE7. Haven't tried it since. At work on a Mac/Safari and no problems for now.
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This isn't about server downtime, it's about browser compatibility.
And it's not about GA, analysis suggested it was the phpMyVisites code.
And it was over two years ago.
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PS_RalphW
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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Did this site get hacked today?
Lot's of database critical errors and spinning icons
- and one page loaded that I don't want to see whilst at work! |
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emordnilap
Joined: 05 Sep 2007
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Location: Houǝsʇlʎ' ᴉʇ,s ɹǝɐllʎ uoʇ ʍoɹʇɥ ʇɥǝ ǝɟɟoɹʇ' pou,ʇ ǝʌǝu qoʇɥǝɹ˙
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Simply not loading here - but there again, it wasn't just PS, so there might be a wider issue.
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