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How to gracefully close a personal stock site
marthamarks:
--- Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on August 04, 2019, 10:07 ---Not sure if this is the plugin you were thinking of (search for SeedProd)
https://www.sumydesigns.com/take-down-website/
My site is still up and functional - very occasional sales these days. The first time I can't upgrade WordPress or anything requiring work and it's gone, but so far, things keep on going :)
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Jo Ann, thanks for pointing out that plugin. I didn't know about it, but will save the reference because it could prove useful in the future.
steheap:
Yes, what prompted this thinking was that yesterday I got a lot of messages from my hosting company that SQL was down and there were errors in my various wordpress databases (on associated sites) and the performance of those sites was pretty bad. I found out that there were many, many attempts to download various pages and files from my symbiostock site. It seemed like Russia and China were the sources of the attempts. The CPU was through the roof. I blocked some IP ranges and I could see they were then just getting 503 rejections and my other sites started working properly again. As far as I know there are no database corruptions - it was probably insufficient CPU to read them and they timed out.
Luckily all the downloads were of the watermarked files (new Symbiostock doesn't store the master files in the normal wordpress file structure) and I doubt if any damage was done, but it did make me think about the pros and cons of having all those files online.
But things seem back to normal again (and I guess some regions of China can't buy my images any longer!)
Steve
cascoly:
I get 10-20 'new users' on my symbio site every day - almost all junk of some sort
there may be a different problem --wordpress doesnt do a good job of cleaning up after itself, and the post table can explode -- I've seen it go over 500,000 records. this can cause performance problems. you can fix it (on Justhost) by running cpane/phpMyAdmin on your site, load the db, click structure then do repair & optimization. I do this about every 6-8 months
i've left my symbio site running, mostly to link back to my cascoly.com site where i hvae links by subject to my SS portfolio
georgep7:
--- Quote from: marthamarks on August 04, 2019, 10:14 ---
--- Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on August 04, 2019, 10:07 ---Not sure if this is the plugin you were thinking of (search for SeedProd)
https://www.sumydesigns.com/take-down-website/
My site is still up and functional - very occasional sales these days. The first time I can't upgrade WordPress or anything requiring work and it's gone, but so far, things keep on going :)
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Jo Ann, thanks for pointing out that plugin. I didn't know about it, but will save the reference because it could prove useful in the future.
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kuriouskat:
I also invested time in the SYmbiostock project and eventually went my own way and built a Wordpress site. It was a fun task and I learned loads, but ultimately it wasn't worth it.
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