Jul 24
CharWordPress
Recently on another blog I had a time-out error during a routine automatic upgrade. My blog kept coming up in maintenance mode which drove me absolutely nuts because I couldn’t figure out how to get it out of maintenance mode, and even the admin pages were coming up as being under scheduled maintenance. So I went searching Google (a search on WordPress.org’s forums did not produce anything) and found a post on WordPress.org’s forums which solved the problem.
If you ever accidentally click the “stop” button on your browser, navigate away from the updates page, have a browser time-out, etc, and your blog is stuck in maintenance mode – look in your the directory where your files for WordPress are kept and find a file called .maintenance – delete this file and the blog will be back up and running like it was before.
You may need to attempt your upgrade again – but you’ll at very least have your blog back!
May 22
CharSocial Networking privacy
If you think Facebook is bad about releasing info you’d rather keep private – try finding yourself on a website that posts info about you, including your phone number for FREE, with full address and other information such as credit & wealth info to paying customers. That’s EXACTLY what you get if you go to http://spokeo.com (no it is NOT a link)!!!!
They claim their sources are public sources such as social networking profiles & phone books. However the phone number they had listed for me on 2 of the 3 profiles they had for me (yes 3 profiles for me) was an unlisted phone number!!!!
It’s bad enough that they post the phone numbers for all to see – but they also sit there and use incorrect information. Example: my best friend is listed as African-American while the rest of her family is listed as Caucasian. She is Caucasian. Plus, they will give out information to paying customers – more detailed info than free customers get.
There IS a way to remove yourself and it is instant, but if you find yourself with more than one profile, you’ll have to have multiple email addresses AND you can only remove so many profiles per day. So it might take you a few days if there are a lot of profiles for you to go through and delete.
Apr 20
CharBlog Hosting, Domains, Web Hosting Blogging, server issues, testing
I am currently conducting a test regarding an intermittent issue I have been having with my blogs. You see, I have a reseller account that I use to host my various blogs. The hosting account has been great, I’ve had it almost a year and I’ve never had any issues with it.
But lately I’ve noticed an issue with my blogs suddenly not being available. They’re available when I type in the sub-domain, for example: basicallygeeky.charitygamble.com – but when I type in charitygamble.com the blog is not available because the browser will say it cannot find the server. This is due to a DNS server issue.
The problem is that when I contacted my host about it, everything was fine on the server end. So I concluded that the issue must be on GoDaddy’s end. After all, they’re my registrar and they point the domain to the name servers I provided them. So I gave them a call today. As I suspected, they told me that the issue was with my host. That once I set the name servers, if it wasn’t to name servers belonging to GoDaddy, that there was nothing they could do. It was out of their hands.
So I decided to conduct a test. I moved this blog off my host and pointed the name servers to a free hosting company. My test is simple. If I go to one of my other blogs and find that it isn’t working, I’ll check this blog. If this blog is working, I’ll try another one of the domains that I have added on extra to my reseller account. If those sites still aren’t working, but this site is, I’ll know that the issue is with the hosting account.
But if I come to this blog and this blog is down as well, then that means that the problem is not with my hosting account but is with GoDaddy instead. It isn’t that I don’t trust my host, or that I don’t trust GoDaddy. The problem here is, I have income that comes from my blogs and I’ve already been threatened by a company that I do work for that they’ll deactivate my blogs if they continue to not work. So getting this figured out is of the utmost importance.
The thing is, when the blogs go down like that, they don’t stay down. They come back up fairly quickly. But yet their auto approval system still can’t auto approve them. So I don’t know what the deal is, but it’s really starting to upset me. I can’t afford to lose my only source of income because my blogs can’t seem to stay put!
Mar 21
CharComputers, Google, Web Browsers chrome, firefox, Google, mozilla, Web Browsers
I use a variety of browsers for various reasons. Some of the reasons include – faster browsing, secure browsing, and personal preference.
On my old laptop, I had been using Firefox until it started to slow way down. Then I switched to Chrome, which loaded up so fast it was amazing. But then I switched to my new laptop and to our new wireless router. Ever since then, I get errors up the kazoo telling me that webpages are unavailable when I use Chrome – I have to refresh several times to actually get to the page – yet Firefox and IE will go straight to the page without an issue every time.
I am starting to wonder if Chrome has a problem with wireless connections. My best friend uses Firefox and has no problems. Her mom uses Firefox and has no problems. If I use Firefox I have no problems. But yet I have friends who use wireless connections all the time and have no problems with Chrome. Could it be that Chrome does not work with with our wireless connection? Or could it be that Chrome does not work well with the 64-bit installation of Windows 7 that my laptop came with?
I am not sure what is causing the problem, but it is certainly annoying as Chrome had become my preferred browser. Now I’m back to Firefox – although so far, Firefox has not been nearly as buggy as it was on my previous system.
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