On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:42:15 +0930 Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 04:30 -0500, Linus Ulrick wrote: > > I have fully qualified domain: afolkey2.net. It can USUALLY be > > found thusly: > > http://www.afolkey2.net > > > > Tonight when I came home from work, I started seeing problems with > > pages loading. Try the following to see what I mean: > > http://www.afolkey2.net/awstats/awstats.pl?config=www.afolkey2.net > > http://www.afolkey2.net/gallery2/main.php > > The website didn't load, first go, here. But the stats page did. > Very odd. Both did eventually load, but both slowly. Though, since > the pages I had to look at were all "generated" things (stats and > photo galleries), that's not uncommon. Such things are often > painfully slow, in my experience. See my response in another part of this thread that explains how I fixed my problem. See especially my references to /etc/hosts. Usually, my gallery works great. Even on a Windows ME dial-up machine that I tried it on. Of course, sometimes it is a little slow. What I was seeing locally (I THINK "locally" is a big key here) was a whole other animal entirely. > It should be noted that making stats public can subject you to > referrer spam: Spammers linking to your pages, hoping to turn up in > your stats, and hoping that you publish your stats, or publish what > refers to you in some other way, so that you give them free > advertising. You can get deluged by them, and some quite unsavoury > things, too. Point well taken. The link is now gone. Thank you very much for pointing this out to me :) > It should also be noted that pinging a machine is quite a different > thing than using some other service on it. You can get good or bad > ping responses that are contrary to how their services respond. All > a ping test is how they respond to pings. :-\ You have taught me something else now. Two things so far in this email... Also, I will look through the parts of your response that I trimmed out and see if there is anything I can use from those parts. Thank you again for your help. Steven P. Ulrick
