December 2009 Archives

Site's been down for most of the last day due to host deciding to suspend my account due to a spambot going after a tag cloud and causing the movable type search .cgi script to overload a bit. Apparently this was causing a heavy load on their server.

So after a day of trying to get a response from the service desk the account got reinstated and I'm now going to back up everything and look at my hosting options. Any recommendations welcome. I just want a nice simple hosting deal which allows me to get on with things and not worry about outages and suspended accounts when my site gets spammed.

Genuinely I do. For all it's utter absurdity it's brilliant telly. And I'm going to miss the final because I'm at work, according to my diary.

What it lacks in class it makes up for in panache. It's a song and dance show that's actually quite old-fashioned: everyone tries their hardest and then the phone vote throws the rotten fruit.

The X Factor facebook page is quite something to behold as well. It's a very smart piece of work that's clearly been well thought out to hit the mark bang on. Name me another programme that can get several thousand comments and likes in a matter of minutes.

And if you're looking for the amount of news it generates, look no further than the volume of content Holy Moly has got aggregated under it's section of content tagged with the X Factor.