I just got back from Pune (story in a seperate post) to find that my VPS has been disabled for CPU usage crossing 80%.

I’ve figured that this has to be a problem with this domain itself which resulted in this crazy usage.

Unfortunately, being in Pune I didn’t even know that the account was disabled.

The VPS is running and I’m currently working on figuring out what exactly caused this major problem

The two culprits I suspect is Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro (which I installed last week) and UTW (which I patched sometime back).

I’ve disabled the former now and will monitor this usage over the next 24 hours and then the latter.

I hope to get the situation under control within 48-72 hours.
It’s almost 2am now and I think it is time to hit the bed. Hopefully, I will wake up with a happy server.

More news then.

After a good deal of waiting and testing I have moved this blog to my new VPS. If you notice anything awry please do bring it to my attention.

You should see much better performance now (hopefully). Going to monitor the blog and the VPS closing for a few weeks.

Are you looking for hosting? I have plenty of space on this VPS and some decent plans available at attractive prices.

Do let me know if you are interested. You must have a current site which you intend to move here.

Yet another week has gone by. Met up with Melody after a long long time last Thursday. After a brief stopover at her dentist’s, we dropped in at Pizza Hut in Bandra.

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Haven’t had much time the past week to actually sit down and patiently blog.

So what have I been busy with?

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When I went to sleep at 1am on Monday morning, I thought I finally won the battle with my VPS for ajaydsouza.com

To cut a long story short, when I checked my site yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, I faced major problems accessing it. When I was able to all I got was No posts and loads of 404s.

Couldn’t do much all day long but sat with it after I returned home around 7.30pm.

Tried restarting the server to find that mysql wouldn’t start. Seems I was locked out of /tmp even without touching it!

Thankfully challii from AS Hosted came to my rescue and patiently help me debug. Temporarily changed the /tmp location to get mysql working and I was able to take a complete backup of this site.

He then moved the site to an account I have here. (Helps to have your own accounts at several hosts).

However, awaking this morning I found that it still threw a database error. Found out that the database hadn’t migrated due to differences between the phpMyAdmin and mySQL versions. Fixed all that and I am up online.

I’m a little disheartened by the entire VPS deal. Additionally, the staff where I currently have the VPS haven’t yet responded to the ticket. I know I troubled them in the past, but this time I didn’t even touch the account.
Am rather irritated and may move to another VPS.

However, this is some decision that is going to take a lot of pondering, especially since I will have to pay atleast $50/mo for this.

I don’t know if the server here will bear the load, am going to evaluate this for the next few days and then take a decision.