House Cleaning… Hopefully moving towards more stability

Just a note – part one of the website’s “homesite improvement” project is coming along, as if you hadn’t noticed, the website has been dragging a bit from time to time.

Part of it is from the sheer amount of data we’re serving. Despite my best efforts to shut them out, the site is crawled from time to time by bots seeking to either index content or to grab content, and when they’re doing that to over 15,000 posts, and 160k comments.. well, it doesn’t help the server load.

I’ve just completed off-loading 10,000 posts, and about 100,000 comments, trimming hosted content down to the last 5 years. So we’ll see how much that helps.  Part 2 is a little more complex, as I need to update software, but am on a server which will no longer allow updates. Which means I have to start a new server and migrate all the content. And then make sure things are pointing to the new server.  Not a lot of fun, but I’m going to have to complete that in the very near future.

So, again, sorry about the load times. But, by the time I’m done, it should be tuned up and good to roll for a lot more years.

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