As of about an hour ago, the website is back on the original eMachine server \u2013 running the current Fedora 20 and booting from the internal hard drive instead of the slow small USB drive. There are a few wrinkles still to work out, but I think it probably is stable.<\/p>\n
Watching the server, I noticed that Bing (a.k.a. Microsoft) was hammering my server with multiple requests per second \u2013 hanging off a residential cable connection without that kind of capacity is a problem. I have therefore decided to declare an end to active support for Microsoft’s Bing access. Bing has at best been a very minor source of traffic.<\/p>\n
The windows XP machine can now return to being a test machine. Making on-the-fly changes to a production server can be a bit disruptive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As of about an hour ago, the website is back on the original eMachine server \u2013 running the current Fedora 20 and booting from the internal hard drive instead of the slow small USB drive. There are a few wrinkles … Continue reading