Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Preparing for the Coming of Carl Justine Laplana

Today, my wife and I received a present from my sister. I am very thankful for what she's given us especially now that my wife and I experienced financial problem.

Since March 2009, she already have given us the complete things that my son needs when he'll come out from he's mother's womb.

This afternoon, my wife and I went to shopping. We buy more things that we think are needed by our son. We also bought maternity diaper, maternity napkins and dress that will be used on the delivery.

Actually we are now waiting for the right time that Carl Justine Laplana will be born. According to my wife's OB-Gyne anytime starting last Friday, our son can come out because he is already on the TERM period.

Error 500, Server Internal Error

My free 1 week from the DreamHost as a trial period for my DreamHost PS and PS-MySQL will end two days from now. So, I adjusted the server resources to the point that I think is enough for my blogs.

But I think, the adjustment is too low because after few hours, my blog is not accessible anymore. The browser just told me that there was an Error 500 or Server Internal Error.

I immediately thought that the cause of that error was the adjustment that I did. And from what I already read from other users using the DreamHost PS and PS MySQL, the only thing to do to resolve the problem is to reboot the server.

So, I immediately rebooted the server. And in just few seconds, my blogs are up again.

This is what I really need. I have a full control of the server. Not like when I was still in my previous webhost that the only thing to do if I will encounter problem like this is to email the webhost where in its customer support's respond is too late.

Asking for Refund

Just like what I told you on my article, "How to avoid blog's downtime?", I already transferred from my former webhost to the DreamHost.

Actually, I got a DreamHost account last December 2009 when the server hosting my blogs was down for several days. However, my conscience was telling me not to transfer my "SELaplana" blog to that new DreamHost account for a reason that was not really clear on my mind especially when my blog was UP again.

But in order to fully use my DreamHost account, I transferred my other blogs: Pinoy Text Messages, Maasin City News, and Motoristang Pinoy. I also bought a domain, OPM Songs Lyrics, which is supposed to be for my Songs Lyrics blog, but I hesitated to transfer the "Songs Lyrics" blog into the "OPM Songs Lyrics" domain because obviously that domain is fresh and has no record at all in the search engine. So, I decided to put up a news blog for that domain.

So much for that....

I told my former webhost that I will cancel my reseller account effective June 6, 2009. Regarding the reason, I just told them that I need to transfer my blogs to my other account to help their server become free of worries from my blogs.

However, the main reason why I transferred is because they failed to gave me the VPS that I need. Their shared server is always down and downtimes affected the traffic of the blog and my income of course. I couldn't survive if my blogs will be always down.

And with the cancelation request, I am also asking them if I can have the refund for what I paid them. Actually, I paid them PhP40,255.00 for a 1 year subscription. But I will consumed only 3 months from that 1 year subscription.

I'll just hope they'll give me that refund.

Server's Resources Adjustment

After receiving email from the DreamHost system that my DreamHost PS and PS-MySQL were already up, I immediately checked if all the blogs hosted by it were already up.

The email stated that the blogs hosted by my DreamHost account might be down for several hours if not days because the DNS has changed and it takes times for the DNS to be fully resolved in the internet.

After 24 hours, all the blogs are finally up and running fine.

I am not currently adjusting the server's resources to the level that I think is just right for my account that will not lead to the crash of the server but is not too high.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

DreamHost PS and PSMySQL, Up

After more than two days of waiting, finally the DreamHost PS and PS MySQL of my account in DreamHost is already running.

I now realized that upgrading an existing shared account from DreamHost takes days because the DreamHost system still needs to merge the existing databases into the PSMySQL server and then the existing files will be moved into the DreamHost PS server.

Actually, I have done a mistake while waiting for my PS account to be fully setup. I was overly excited at that time.

When I received an email from the DreamHost system that they finished merging my databases into the PS MySQL server, I immediately checked my account and found that all my sites hosted by DreamHost were all down. Then I sent tickets to the Technical Support.

However, I should have not done that. But I couldn't blame my self for doing that because DreamHost failed to inform me what's happening in my account.

I only realized that I should to wait until the upgrade has finished already when I received another email from the DreamHost system that my DreamHost PS and PS MySQL are fully set up.

Monday, April 20, 2009

DreamHost PS and MySQL PS, Ready

Finally, my DreamHost PS (Private Server) has been finally set up. The MySQL PS was set up already two days ago.

However, all the blogs hosted by DreamHost will still be offline because the DNS of the server has been changed too. And the changes takes time to resolve to the whole internet.

The blogs currently hosted by DreamHost that are currently down are:

Google Spider Rarely Visit Us

I have noticed that the Google Spider has rarely visited some blogs created under the Blogger.com, especially the blogs that are members of the Ka Webspy Network.

For example, few updates in the Naked Pinoy blog are not yet picked up by Google like:
The same in the SSS Online Inquiry blog that I recently created. Only few of the posts of that blog are spidered by Google. And the new posts are not yet included on the SERP like:
We also created a Pinay and Pinoy Scandal blog but it's not yet index.

But the good thing is that my blog, You Ask and I will Answer, is always visited by the Google spider. I really wonder what with this blog that is not found on the other blogs.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Server Problem

For several days on this month, my blog hosted locally experienced downtime for different server problem and reasons. My income of this month has been greatly affected.

So, resolve this problem, I am started transferring my blogs to my account at DreamHost. But since, my DreamHost account is currently shared, then I need to install VPS and PS-MySQL on it to make it isolated to the rest of the accounts at DreamHost.

It takes time to fully resolve the changes in DNS so I am expecting more downtimes of my blog.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Some SERP Updates

First of all, I want to record the fact that my Naruto Shippuuden Fan blog has lost its rank of a precious keyword, "Naruto Hentai".

Last March 2009, that said blog lost traffic from searches of that keyword but after several days it went back again. But now, I wonder if the blog can get the top 1 position in the SERP again knowing that the site listed on the top 1 seem recognized by Google as the authority for the Naruto Hentai searches.

But of course we'll not be lost hope. There are still time to bet that site.

For now, just consider reading my post at the Naked Pinoy blog.
And by the way, Google has indexed my new blog SSS Online Inquiry which contains comments by the SSS Members about the SSS Online Inquiry System. So far, these are the post published on that blog:
And then my domain SSS Inquiry Online has been indexed already by Google.

That's all for now.

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Bandwidth Consumed

As of writing this post, the time here in the Philippines is 8:23AM. But the time used by the server hosting my blogs is late for several hours. As proof, all my blogs hosted by the Pinoy Server is still down due to the bandwidth limitation.

I know that the bandwidth of my account in that Pinoy Server will be consumed soon. But I was thinking that the suspension would be in a short period of time because by 12:00MN (Philippine time) the server will be refreshed since yesterday was the last day of the month.

But it was not. Until now, my blogs are still suspended due to bandwidth limitation.

I wonder what time zone is the server using.