My Blog Must Have Caught My Cold
Written by George Manty · September 11, 2006
Is it possible for a blog to catch a cold?
I caught a cold last night that has been going around our house over the weekend. So I didn’t spend much time on the business (or anything else for that matter).
Sunday night I went to this blog to finish a post I started last week. To my surprise all I saw on my blog was a string of error messages that looked somethng like this:
WordPress database error: [User has exceeded the ‘max_questions’ resource (current value: 50000)]
SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘siteurl’ LIMIT 1
Unfortunately, my blog limits the amount of queries it does per hour. I had never run into this problem before. In fact, when we were blogging the olympics we got “WAY” more traffic than I ever get to this blog.
So what went wrong?
Well, it seems that the plug-in I recently installed to show related posts was creating too many queries to the database. This is partially because of the Wordpress Template that I am using and partially because of how many posts I was showing on the main page.
Anyway, for now I have removed the plug-in.
The good news is that my blog has gotten over it’s cold! The bad news is that my fever and stuffed nose are signs that I am not quite over my cold yet…
Great eye/cold-catching title for a blog post. I personally think that most software—let alone blogging software—has got a permanent mental disability.
Just like user-interfaces for mobile phones, MP3 players, CD players and other hi-tech devices. We are still a long way away from “truly” useable software, that can be used as simply as pulling a book down from the shelf or scribbling on a piece of paper.
Speaking as someone who writes JAVA code for a living, I agree!