Weblog news

For weblog writers, we now support Ecto. I’ve also added in some instructions about comment posting. I am surprised we haven’t gotten more comments posted; I guess we’ll have to figure out ways to direct more traffic, or post more interesting weblogs.

As for Allpar, we’re over the huge swirl of Challenger/NAIAS hits, and I must say I’m happy with the way the server handled the load - without any sign that it was under load. The extra RAM really proved its worth, and we never really got into swap memory at all. Right now we’re running at 1.7 GB used, so there’s some space for expansion before we get into swap; before we added that physical memory, the hard drive must have been constantly stressed. (Our IO-wait has gone down from up to 70% to under 1%.) We still have a huge backlog of additions, but all the little stuff is taking up a surprising amount of time; still, expect Good Things in the future. … and our new registry system is due to come on-line around February 4.