Archive for the 'KickRSS' Category

Actually Cleaning Some Things up

While it may not be noticeable, I’ve actively been back at work cleaning up quite a bit of the content appearing on the KICKRSS user pages. There were a lot ( like in the thousands) of accounts that were not currently active. There were also quite a few accounts that were putting a serious strain [...]

KickRSS, Thursday, February 17th, 2011, No Comments »

Happy 2011 and Changes Coming

It’s too bad KickRSS has been neglected so long. The site once was a great tool for organizing RSS Feeds. I’ve been way to busy to keep up on activity and unfortunately I discovered lots of feeds no longer displayed, or worse, displayed material that could get the site banned in search engines. I’m on [...]

KickRSS, Sunday, January 30th, 2011, No Comments »

Happy 2009 from KickRSS!

Happy New Year folks! We are still here just been too busy to update the log in way too long. KickRSS runs automated and few users have complained so we’ve just been keeping the lights on and letting peeps do their thing. Many good things for you in 2009!

KickRSS, Saturday, January 3rd, 2009, No Comments »

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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