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by tmorton 13y ago

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DRMacIver 13y ago
Thanks. I'm currently paying the price for my foolish decision to self-host wordpress. In the process of trying to fix.
- jontas 13y ago
  As a quick fix, just grab the source from the Google cache and throw up a static HTML file.
  - DRMacIver 13y ago
    Ah. That's a good idea which I totally failed to follow. Instead I flailed around blindly in the usual manner of trying to get PHP applications to work and seem to have fixed the problem. :-) I should really move my blog to an environment I actually understand and have control over.
    - packetslave 13y ago
      WP Super Cache is definitely your friend if you must self-host.
      - DRMacIver 13y ago
        Yes, I know. I had it but my config was badly broken so it wasn't doing anything. Whoops.
- yaddayadda 13y ago
  I think this is proof of Principle 1's pros and cons. (I still don't have a self-hosted blog because I tend to account for all contingencies. Therefore, when I finally self-host, it won't have this flaw. Meanwhile, you already have a self-hosted blog and are simply working out the kinks as they happen.)
  - DRMacIver 13y ago
    TBF, I've had a self-hosted blog for about 6 years. I just chose a platform that I didn't understand in order to prevent me from wasting time yak shaving on the means of hosting and just write content so have never actually performed the learning part of step 1. I've mostly got away with it in the past - it's survived much heavier hackernewsings - but I think I installed a plugin recently that was rather more costly than it should have been, and then the fact that I hadn't previously looked under the hood bit me. Edit: It's also worth noting I don't think principle 1 is always a good idea. This advice is very specifically optimised for the case of joining an existing company with an existing product and an existing team. If you're starting from scratch you should do more up front investigation and thinking things through. though maybe not orders of magnitude more.

by tmorton 13y ago

DRMacIver 13y ago

Thanks. I'm currently paying the price for my foolish decision to self-host wordpress. In the process of trying to fix.

jontas 13y ago
As a quick fix, just grab the source from the Google cache and throw up a static HTML file.
- DRMacIver 13y ago
  Ah. That's a good idea which I totally failed to follow. Instead I flailed around blindly in the usual manner of trying to get PHP applications to work and seem to have fixed the problem. :-) I should really move my blog to an environment I actually understand and have control over.
  - packetslave 13y ago
    WP Super Cache is definitely your friend if you must self-host.
    - DRMacIver 13y ago
      Yes, I know. I had it but my config was badly broken so it wasn't doing anything. Whoops.
yaddayadda 13y ago
I think this is proof of Principle 1's pros and cons. (I still don't have a self-hosted blog because I tend to account for all contingencies. Therefore, when I finally self-host, it won't have this flaw. Meanwhile, you already have a self-hosted blog and are simply working out the kinks as they happen.)
- DRMacIver 13y ago
  TBF, I've had a self-hosted blog for about 6 years. I just chose a platform that I didn't understand in order to prevent me from wasting time yak shaving on the means of hosting and just write content so have never actually performed the learning part of step 1. I've mostly got away with it in the past - it's survived much heavier hackernewsings - but I think I installed a plugin recently that was rather more costly than it should have been, and then the fact that I hadn't previously looked under the hood bit me. Edit: It's also worth noting I don't think principle 1 is always a good idea. This advice is very specifically optimised for the case of joining an existing company with an existing product and an existing team. If you're starting from scratch you should do more up front investigation and thinking things through. though maybe not orders of magnitude more.