After months and months of development and input, the website project Anti Tables goes live! You may remember a post a while back talking about Anti Tables (View post here) well the project still continued, but development dramatically expanded after a few months and the site was taken down to continue the development. The orginal plan was to release Anti Tables in 2008 and then start building up content and aiming to get a decent amount of traffic by 2009. But this quickly became impossible as alot of new ideas were in the air and it wasn't possible.

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Today James' Blog experienced some downtime today, about 12 hours worth, which is quite alot, but strangely this was not because of a server going down. No it was a strange incident involving one of the key systems that powers WordPress (The engine that runs James' Blog) and that is MySQL. If you had visited the site today then you would of either got just a forever loading page or if you had viewed the site after a few hours you would of got the temp page I set up, which redirected all links to the temp page. Because the website wasn't offline just a key system wasn't functioning correctly which like I said was MySQL, it handles all of the databases connections and because access to the database couldn't be established nothing was able to be displayed.

My host got in touch with me after having communication difficulties of there own and basically this was the problem:

"There was first an issue with MySQL which i corrected, but then outbound requests would not resolve hostnames. This highlighted an issue with DNS, which I have now resolved. Two, probably unrelated issues happening consecutively..."

In basic terms the service MySQL could not process connections correctly and the DNS (Which is mainly the domain name which is james-blogs.com) had difficultly to. Probably just bad timing like Dan (The Tech support rep said in the statement above) but everything is fixed now and also my host have put in some new measures to stop this from happening ever again which is good! But to be fair since moving to LRC-Hosting 10 months ago, this has been the only downtime besides when they moved there network around (Which was planned)

Anyway James' Blog is back online again, sorry for the downtime and now I shall reply to some of your comments that people have been leaving on articles and tutorials.

I apologize for the alliteration, but that's what I've been doing for the past couple of days. I've been planning a couple of tweaks to my one and only WordPress theme for a while, but have only got round to it recently, this is due to me being on holiday and before the exams I took last month. But whats good is that the exams are over and while I'd wish I was back in Scotland because that would mean I wouldn't be going back to sixth form tommorow, but im back in England so there we go. Anyway I like to do a what I call blog update post any once in a while to update you on the latest changes that happen behind the scenes so to speak. Read on to get the latest information

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A couple of days ago I posted about a bandwidth issues, that had recently been happening. If you didn't read the post click here Bandwidth amount is no longer a problem as I have just bumped my account to 80GB per month, and you'd think wow your not crazy, thats exactly what I think too, but im still using about 4 GB per day, well it's usually around 3.94 GB and does vary slightly, but the usage is very much high.

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For the first time in History, As a webmaster I've managed to exceed my bandwidth limit causing James' Blog to go down for a bit. I think from around 12:10 AM this morning I'd gone over my bandwidth usage and if you we're unlucky enough to try and view the blog, you would have got a nice suspended message, saying that the hosting account of James' Blog is suspended. It wasn't exactly the best thing to wake up to this morning, but your now reading this message so you'll be happy to now that my hosting account is unsuspended. Thanks to the great people at LRC-Gaming (Who hosts James' Blog) they we're kind enough to let me purchase some more bandwidth without having to upgrade my hosting package.

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