Apologies for the absence of Articles & Texticles yesterday, my web hosting company (1and1.co.uk) were doing something unspeakable to the MySQL database servers and it took this site down for a few hours.
I’m always a bit suspicious when I see the visitor stats crash down to almost nothing…
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Fortunately there is a real time information feed to the server data centre, that shows exactly what’s going on at the web hosting company.
Click the image below…
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Hello, How do you make your thumbnail enlarge with the overlay like that? Is is a word press extension?
I see.:o)
m3nt0r.deHi Will, You’re right, it is a WordPress plugin called LightBox2.
You can get it from Kjell Bublitz at http://www.m3nt0r.de/blog/lightbox-wordpress-plugin/
Now if I could just find a plugin that stopped these URLs from getting mangled in the comment boxes, I’d be happy.
Thanks!
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[...] Even more galling was the discovery that the Business contract that 1&1 offers in the USA was not only cheaper but also offered FIFTY MySQL engines. When I asked them to explain the disparity, the salesperson I talked to explained that it was “the nature of the market”, and No, I couldn’t have a second database for free because they had burned the server and blacked out my sites for several hours. [...]