Archive for the 'KickRSS' Category

Feed Links Finally Repaired

We’d been experienceing errors with many feed links during the past 3 months. Today we upgraded php on the server and updated installs of Sablotron (version 1.0.3) and domxml which appears to have corrected multiple errors we’d been experiencing with XSLT functions on the user page outputs.
For those involved in this kind of work here […]

KickRSS, Thursday, July 26th, 2007, No Comments »

30 Days of CRON and we are ON

It’s not perfect yet but after 30 days it appears that the new setup for running cron on updating feeds for KickRSS has taken some of the load off of the server.
What was happening is I was running updates on feeds (over 12,000) every few minutes. As a result cron jobs were taking longer to […]

KickRSS, Wednesday, April 25th, 2007, No Comments »

Long Weekend of Cron Job on RSS Feeds

It’s been a long weekend modifying update feed php scripts as well as removal scripts on the KickRSS server. Last two weeks while traffic was going up I noticed speed and performance was going down. By Friday night mySQL was crashing from far too many processes running.
Turns out our feed updates (some starting every five […]

KickRSS, Monday, March 26th, 2007, No Comments »

2000 a day and counting

I was planning to post this last week but had not gotten around to it. I mentioned I would post when we hit 2000 visitors per day and by golly we hit it on 12 Mar 2007. Total count for that day was 2281 with 16 Mar 2007 being the second highest of the week […]

KickRSS, Thursday, March 22nd, 2007, No Comments »

Most popular searches in RSS today

I was checking our search logs on KickRSS.com and thought I’d share some of the top things I found people are searching for (all related to RSS).
I copied 26 of the most popular RSS related phrases that I found in our AWStats log file and I’ll go down the list from most popular phrases to […]

KickRSS, Tuesday, March 6th, 2007, No Comments »

Last day of February busiest day on record for KickRSS

Was just checking the log files and it appears as though the last day of Feb 2007 (28th) was the best day on record for KickRSS. Stats for the day were 1517 users which is up from the month of January on the same date. No days over 2000 yet but it looks as though […]

KickRSS, Thursday, March 1st, 2007, No Comments »