 Site is back up now. I stuffed it up and then cascading complications led to outage. History: Hiya, I’m working on the problems on the forums which give 404 errors all over the place. Sorry for the hassle. I know what I changed that broke it (installing eaccelerator) but it doesn’t make much sense to have had this consequence. It’s 9am EST, nearly 11pm in Sydney; getting a bit late here and I haven’t been able to fix  This article is a review of LiquidWeb as a hosting company, with whom I had a dedicated server for five months, and am now using one of their cloud servers. Today I’m covering how awesome Liquidweb are, detailed proof on how I can say that honestly, why I recommend a fully managed service if you’re not a Linux geek and some advice on CPU issues on shared hosts. This is a detailed review, based on personal experience, and includes August 19th, 2010 | Leave a comment |
 From: Site news |  Tags: dedicated server, review, VPS, web host   Grim Batol image from Blizzard I have invested quite a bit of time into some site technology improvements, so when Cataclysm Beta starts (whenever that might be), this site is prepared. pwnwear will have exclusive reports from beta testers. I’ll have a whole forum structure dedicated to Cataclysm content, making it easier to find information on zones, instances, gear, quests, levelling, DK changes in detail, Goblins, Worgen, game mechanics changes and so on. Testers can publish their findings directly into that structure. June 21st, 2010 | 3 comments |
From: Cataclysm speculation before Beta, Site news | Tags: beta, Cataclysm speculation before Beta I’ve set up a donation system if you wanted to sponsor pwnwear’s DK tank forums. You can be a sponsor to help me with the server costs. Or, if you want a Murmur voice comms server too, I have set one up on my dedicated hardware. There are two options:
It’s currently Saturday 5.00pm EST / Sunday 9.00am Sydney. Site move is completed. Testing armory tooltip: Character data not available. When there are a lot of comments here, I find that it can be hard to find the latest, because blogs are oriented around the fresh news more so than the fresh discussion. Today I’m opening a forum system to enhance discussion, and make it easier to see the most recent discussion, so people can reply to one another more easily and to create a meeting place for DK tanks. Blogs are blog-article centric, whereas forums are forum-post-centric. Put Just upgraded, let me know if something isn’t working like it used to. The site is slow for me on Mac OS X, whilst others I checked on Twitter say it’s fine for them. I did a website optimser test, and found the uncompressed front page is 500Kb, which is ridiculously big, so I have to tweak it. I’ve removed the tag sphere again, and will consider other tweaks too this week; see if I can make it zippy. Hi all, I’m a little busy with new year, buying a cat for my kids, and other housey stuff, so will do some more posting in the new year! Hope you’re all well and happy. There was a great set of questions from Vigan on Frost tanking, which I’ll get to next. I just answered one about necrosis. The traffic from 3.3 was fairly insane, more than doubled the hits here, peaked at 64K hits in a week instead I’m now in my new house, got ADSL2+ going, decent wireless coverage, and a horrible work laptop to game on. Better than my last one (Lenovo T60), which constantly overheated and turned itself off. It’s great to be home in Oz, I’m really happy. My proper gaming PC should arrive mid-January from the UK, along with our bed (so we won’t be on a sofa bed anymore) and I’ll be able to raid again. Hopefully will have picked up Hi all, I’m moving back home so will be in transit and settling down until around Dec 5th. Don’t expect I’ll be able to post much til then. Update: international move done, recovered from jet lag, planning on blogging again from the 8th. Looking forward to 3.3! If you read pwnwear from a mobile device, you will like the new system I’ve implemented which renders it into a simpler and much faster site. There’s a slight bug for some devices which means the home page doesn’t show up in the mobilePress way. Other pages within it detect the browser device and render as it should. To get around this on your phone, bookmark and navigate to this url instead: http://pwnwear.com/?mobile or link Another way to read I just deactivated the plugin I’d been using for a while, SEO Comments. It contributed 1% of my total traffic over the measured period, which is good, but… the bounce rate on those visitors was a lot higher than for other search visitors (nearly 90% vs 65%), and I didn’t like the impact on the UI. I tracked these stats with google adsense, which lets you use a segment as a filter on all its reports. The plugin I hope finding articles is a lot easier with this new sidebar navigation system I’ve put in. Let me know. I think it might be a bit in-your-face orange, there’s a grey theme too. I also tidied up my categories a bit so there won’t be duplicate content in two Tanking subcategories; though a tank article might also appear in a Raid or Leadership category. Find by theme now, too Lastly, got a new ‘find by theme/ tag’ I added a “most commented recent posts” sidebar item, and re-activated avatars on the “recent comments” sidebar. Ajax Edit Comments recently released a new version which I’ve installed; seems to be a better UI overall. Lastly, thanks to Chev who pointed out my sliding notes weren’t working, I’ve fixed that too. Let me know if you see any performance/speed degradation; showing that many avatars can slow the site while it retrieves them from hosts. My site was down for about 8 hours today for a bitter-sweet reason: it’s using too much of the shared host’s resources. That’s because the site’s getting more traffic (well, when it’s suspended from high CPU usage, it doesn’t get any traffic…), but that’s just 20K pageviews a week. I’m surprised, since really that’s not much at all. I’ll probably upgrade the plan again and more importantly will review my wordpress plugins to see if there are any settings I’m having a long weekend abroad so you won’t see new posts until Wed 21st. The ‘add link’ button within comments now works, and also I added a Twitter option there so other readers can look you up; great for active bloggers who comment here. Hope you’re all well, talk soon! Bugs which broke listings for some categories on my index page are resolved. It now shows recent 10 for all categories, as intended.
I’ve installed a ’sideblog’ which means this news won’t end up in an RSS feed, and nor on the front page of my site, but instead hidden away in the sidebar. Still lets me update you on improvements I’m making to pwnwear, without having to bog down the important content. Ads should now be working for visitors who come from a search engine or who have seen less than a couple of pages in the last ten days. Therefore, Monday: my site’s back up! Comments enabled again. Over the weekend my hosting provider was moving pwnwear to a new server, so there was downtime. It’s very disappointing for me that the site’s been unavailable or I had comments disabled over the whole weekend. They had complications with the move. Other changes:
I’ve updated all key posts (including my main post) on the three DK tank talents for 3.2.2. You can refer to my 3.22 index post to find them all. In 3.22, glyphed bone shield will have eight charges over two minutes, whereas in 3.2 it has six. I really like that change. Update: patch 3.22 is downloading for me for USA server now. I’ve implemented a few changes to the site. Please let me know if you notice any adverse effects, like pictures or pages loading more slowly, or whatnot. » continue reading I notice a few readers coming in on iphones or other mobile devices. If you have trouble reading the body text because of the new wide banners on the right, just subscribe, get a mobile RSS reader and use RSS instead. Works really well, since it removes the widgets on the side, but still has full content. Other pwnwear news I have added tags to every post here now, so you can navigate using tags (they’re like themes or Firstly, Tobold will like this first blue post. Secondly, I’m changing my RSS feed. See below. Blizzard very directly talks about the social aspects of slack people, and how behaviour is driven by goals. Shows a good understanding of the human element of gaming. Rated battlegrounds will not let you join solo; requires a pre-formed team. Why? Blizzard answers with so much truth I’ve quoted it entirely. August 26th, 2009 | 5 comments |
From: General chat, Site news | Tags: Cataclysm speculation before Beta, guild, rss |
   |
|||||
|
Visit forums | Subscribe to blog | Subscribe to forums | Twitter |
||||||
