As you may know, or have experienced, there were two issues of recent note on SPT. One was the loss of readership, down by about 50%. The second was the slow loading of the site’s pages for some if not most of the visitors. The loss of readers is something that I cannot directly explain [...]
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Frankly speaking
February 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, Internet, WordPress, opinion
There’s something going on that I just don’t quite understand. Readership on the site has dropped off enough to concern me. After the last big dip from a few weeks ago, we’re there again. What the hell happened? I tried thinking back and wondered what seemingly small changes have I made that caused for large [...]
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February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, opinion
A number of changes have transpired and I’d like to get you all apprised of just what little new pea-brained ideas I have implemented on the site. A few minor alterations will hopefully make it better. You may have noticed them already.
First, the All About This Site stuff up at the top left, complete with [...]
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Frankly speaking – Site Specific
February 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Frankly speaking - Site Specific
After months and months of saving money, on a two-week pay period basis, I finally had enough saved up where I could go into a little bit of debt and get a new computer and still keep the site and domain alive for the near future. Just this last week, a new, refurbished iMac arrived [...]
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February 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, opinion
While I still have the Stones echoing in the caverns of my brain, I’d thought that I’d bring us all up to date on the state of the site.
With the visit crash of a couple of weeks ago, I did some searching on the WordPress forums and other Google sites. I gleaned no definitive answers [...]
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January 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, opinion
There’s one thing that really concerns and puzzles me at the same time. I feel completely helpless and at a loss at finding a solution. SPT’s visits have dropped by half since the playoff games last weekend.
How do things like this happen? I certainly haven’t a clue. I wrote to the great folks at HostGator [...]
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January 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Frankly speaking - Site Specific
SixPackTech is plodding along. Last week saw peaks of visitations closing in on 700 per day. But something happened on Thursday where visits dropped off and continued to drop off for the rest of the week. It’s a mystery to me. Perhaps there’s a problem with the automatic database backup which I’ve had going for [...]
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January 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, opinion
The winter weeks drone on. It’s odd how humans have the perception of a crazy long winter while summer, of presumably equal length, flies by in the bat of an eyelash. We can’t do anything but complain about it and of course, that does absolutely no good. So we sit and work and exist in [...]
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January 9th, 2010 · Comments Off · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, opinion
As you may have noticed, the Brew Reviews now have the names of the beers in the title. This is a small effort on my part to do two things: when people search for a beer by name, they may hit on our review and get a down to earth (blue collar) opinion on it. [...]
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January 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, opinion
Early Thursday morning, about 1 a.m., our webhosting service, HostGator, suffered a minor outage which took SixPackTech down for about an hour. The problem was a bad UPS on a batch of servers. The servers were back just before 2 a.m. I felt fortunate that it wasn’t at 1 on the afternoon. After my email [...]
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December 20th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, opinion
I ordered and received a new batch of SPT stickers. They look very similar to the old ones but just a little different. The size of the text is slightly larger and thus, the beer mug is a little more offset. Still looks cool, though. So now I have stickers out the wazoo. With that [...]
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December 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, opinion
Winter rears its ugly head and we have no alternative but to push forward. Illinois has not been kind over the last week, bringing weather with lows into the single digits at night, right when I get off work. Some tasks we must now do must be placed on the back burner as we face [...]
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