The 1gb Error File

Posted on 07. Dec, 2010 by Aaron in Internet Marketing

Not much going on here but everywhere else it’s gone a bit mad. If anyone has experienced the site crawling along lately like an arthritic dog I may have inadvertently caused a major error log situation in WordPress while trying a new (semi) autopost method, a bit more about that in a moment.

For a couple of days I thought this site was crawling along horribly and decided to have a dig around only to find a 1gb, yes I did say 1gb error log on my server. This looks to have been caused by a post by email type plugin. I will be having another crack at this on another ‘sacrificial’ site maybe over the Xmas hols  but as it goes it’s all hands on deck at the moment. The idea though came about from always having a problem with autoposting, the system itself works faultlessly and I have one site that runs on wp robot, only problem is you have no real control over what it throws onto your site.

So the other day I see Ed Dale off the 30 Day Challenge in a video, iPhone in hand, posting to his blog. Basically the process went iPhone > Reader (iPhones really great RSS reader) > Dale then sent it to Instapaper and then emailed the RSS article from Instapaper to his blog via email. Straight away I saw this was a great idea because you could have all the latest news lined up ready for you to inspect then send straight to your blog.

Now I run a cycling site and I thought this would be fantastic for news reports. There was actually one story I picked up days before the largest cycling site over here. If I had the system nailed it’d have been on my site in minutes. So anyhow I lost half a day trying to get this to work to no avail and then today I find a monster error file on the server. I think I’ll save this one for a rainy day but hopefully anyone reading this can see how great it’d be for news style sites.

The other news is my web design business is going great guns and my day job is crumbling under me, basically my boss thinks it’s a great idea to leave me guessing as to whether I get paid or not and I’ve come very close to jacking everything in. Only problem is in the space of 2-3 months I’ve secured about 5 clients (2 really great ones) , I still need more but here’s the scary bit, I’ve got these clients without a website. So this has now taken priority for a while.

I’ll definitely be back on the affiliate circuit though as it’s 100% integral to my business plan but sometimes in business you have to knuckle down hard, even if it does mean working to 1:40am in the morning only to get up again at 6:30am for the day job, so if things seem a little quiet round here it’s not because I’ve gone off the boil, I’m just a little busy.