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Keeping our websites up to date is becoming quite the chore

October 24, 2009 by Tricia

Keeping my websites up to date is becoming a pain!

I have one very large HTML based website that I’m working on updating today and it’s taking forever. Yes I’m using an HTML program to do it … but it’s still pretty much manual work.

Then .. it seems like a lot of the plugins that I use on our WordPress blogs are being updated every few days … anyone that uses the All in one SEO plugin will know what I mean. LOL Not to mention the fact that there’s yet another WordPress update. At least WordPress and plugin updates have gotten a lot easier in the last year or so … but still, when you have 17 blogs to manage it’s still a lot of work.

I have one plugin that I used to love, but lately it isn’t working well on half my blogs. It’s the WordPress Database backup plugin. It sends me scheduled backups for about half my sites, but doesn’t email me the backups for the rest. Now that’s frustrating! The worst part is that I can’t find a good replacement for this plugin (even though it still works fine for manual backups).

Speaking of backups … I’m thinking of not only backing up my websites on a regular basis to my computer or a storage device, but also looking into an online backup service.

I’ve had problems in the past (long long ago) where some of my sites were hacked … so I’m a real stickler for keeping things up to date and backed up just in case something happens again.

Do you get tired of doing the constant updates on your WordPress website? (and possible any other type of CMS or HTML website) And … Do you make backup copies of your sites on a regular basis? If not – why not?

DTIDATA Specializes in Hard Drive Recovery

September 28, 2007 by Tricia

I frequent quite a few forums and it’s not uncommon for me to read posts regularly about someones computer breaking down or how they got a virus and can’t boot their computer anymore or worst of all how they heard funny noises coming from their computer and then their hard drive suddenly failed.

Did you know that when you hear strange sounds or a clicking noise coming from your hard drive that it’s probably best to shut down your computer and not attempt any recovery attempts? You can end up causing more damage to your hard drive if you continue to run it when it’s in a degraded state. Doing this could make your data unrecoverable!

If you suspect that your hard drive isn’t working properly and could fail or know that it’s broken thats the time to get in touch with a hard drive repair specialist.

DTIDATA specializes in Hard Drive Recovery. Their staff of engineers keep themselves up to date on the latest technology related to hard drive data recovery. In fact, their R&D team is responsible for developing new recovery technology so you can rest assured that when you have your hard drive repaired by DTIDATA they are using the latest and likely best techniques available.

DTIDATA has a class 100 clean room that they use for all Hard Drive Recovery. This will help ensure that no dust or particles will get into your hard drive as they work on retrieving your data.

Once you send your hard drive to DTIDATA for Hard drive recovery and it’s received by the company they log it into their database and assign a case number. They then send you a message that includes your case number so that you can track your hard drives recovery.

One thing that I really like about this company is that they don’t charge any diagnostic fees. If they can’t recover data from your hard drive there’s no charge, in fact they don’t charge you at all unless they recover 100% of your data. That’s how confident they are in their service.

Hopefully your hard drive continues to work well for a long time to come, but if you ever do need to have your hard drive repaired or have the data recovered remember DTIDATA.

I think I need an new email program

August 9, 2007 by Tricia

My email program is acting funny. I use Eudora, a program that is apparently not going to be updated anymore.

I’ve got the most recent installation on this computer, but every once in a while it freezes up. It will start working again after three to five minutes but it’ll freeze when I’m deleting an email or when I click on something within an email.

It’s only done this two or three times, most often after the laptop has been on for a long while and perhaps went into hibernation mode, but today for the first time it’s freezing up and I’ve only been using the laptop for two hours – with no breaks.

The only difference today is that there was a Java update. I guess I should reboot and see if that fixes my email program.
Weird.

Anyway, it looks like I might have to look for a new email program soon. I hate Outlook express. Any ideas? I’ve always loved Eudora … If I could find a new email program similar to Eudora I’d be happy.

My sites are using too much CPU resources? Help!

July 1, 2007 by Tricia

I’ve gone through a nightmare in the last few days!

I got a message from my web host on Thursday evening stating that my sites/ domains were using too much of the web hosts resources on the server that they were on and that they had moved my sites to a non-production server until I could either figure out what was causing the drain on resources or until I decided to upgrade to a VPS hosting plan or a dedicated servers hosting plan.

Well, both of those options are more expensive and while I know my traffic has gone up recently and continues to rise I’m certain that it’s not high enough to warrant upgrading my hosting account just yet.

So I stayed up Thursday night and worked on my sites. Looking over all the stats to see if I could figure out which files were being used too often or if there were any files or folders in my domain directories that shouldn’t be there.

I didn’t find anything abnormal but I did deactivate a few plugins that I thought might use more of the servers resources than the others. That’s all I could think to do.

I’ve also upgraded the Google Sitemap plugin that I was using to the newest beta version as that one is said to go easier on CPU resources than the last stable version.

So today … well today is Canada Day. We had a friend over for the weekend so I left my sites alone briefly last night and earlier today. We’d been supposed to go out of town, but that wasn’t going to happen when there was the possibility of me losing my sites or of them going down. You see I was still waiting to hear back from my web host. I’d written to them twice since I got their message on Thursday evening and didn’t end up hearing from them until today! Grrrr.

Unfortunately the message that I got from them today was that my sites CPU usage had increased! Aaaah! It shouldn’t have increased! What the heck????

They also told me that they’d disabled the index.php file for this site because:

We have been forced to disable your script(index.php) located in
(/home/thewe22/public_html/feverishthoughts/index.php) as they appear to have
been exploited.

Well what does that mean? Was my site hacked? Did someone try to access my site with a script?

I have no idea, but the result was that Tricia’s Musings was down for the count.

I was advised to again search for any scripts of files in my directories that didn’t belong (didn’t find any) and to upgrade my software.

So I’ve upgraded Tricia’s Musings to the most recent version of WordPress. As I said earlier I also upgraded the Google Sitemap plugin. I’ve turned off Bad Behavior (now I’ll be hit with spam!) and I’ve installed WP-Cache.

I still have a number of plugins running. I’ve turned off a number of them, but I do still have several activated.

If CPU usage is still high I’ll turn off all but Akismet and see how that goes.

If you have any ideas for me as to what else I might be able to do to limit the CPU usage on my sites I’d love to hear it.

Topicscape 3D helps you get organized

June 25, 2007 by Tricia

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by all the information that you’ve stored on your computer and have desperately wanted to find a way to get organized so that you can find the files you need within minutes you might be interested in a unique software program called TopicScape Information Organizer in 3D!

That’s right. It’s a 3D information organizer. You can get an idea of what your organized information might look like by having a look at this chefs recipe information organizer software. If you were to organize your own recipes that you’ve stored on your computer according to ingredients it might look something like the example that I linked to above.

It’s simply a new way to look at information. If you are a visual person you’ll love this software.

To use the program simply drag and drop files and information on to topic areas. Connecting the various topics in your own way will individualize your 3D Topicscape organizer in a way that suits your way of thinking.

If this sounds interesting to you, you can visit the site via any of the links above or read this in depth article 3d mindmapping software article to get even more information about this unique software program.

There’s a TopicScape lite and a Topicscape pro addition for download on the site. You can also down load TopicScape skins that will help you individualize the look and feel of your TopicScape installation.

Give it a try, perhaps this will be the perfect organization system for you.

Keeping our websites up to date is becoming quite the chore

DTIDATA Specializes in Hard Drive Recovery

I think I need an new email program

My sites are using too much CPU resources? Help!

Topicscape 3D helps you get organized

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