Pulpconnection Meltdown

First, I need to apologize to Kanye West for poking fun at him. Right after a few Kanye posts, Pulpconnection experienced a service meltdown that I couldn’t repair. No, it wasn’t a storm of traffic that brought this blog down, just a runaway Apache web service. This out-of-control service sucked up all my hosting resources leaving nothing to power the pulp. See the prolonged spike in the red line? Not good.

After some troubleshooting on my own and even after suggestions from “The Genius” Ryan Kanno, I still wasn’t getting anywhere. I was about to file a trouble ticket with Dreamhost when I saw their Live Chat feature. I tried it, and Max responded. I told him my issue, he looked into it, and as a seer of all, Max discovered and repaired my renegade apache service. All in a matter of minutes. Thanks Max!

Max also politely pointed me to a wiki article about WordPress fine tuning, and now I got WordPress Super Cache running to help tame things.

Lessons learned: Dreamhost live chat good. Enable caching for WordPress good. Angering Kanye West bad.