It’s only a Perfect Storm when you concede defeat
I have some hobby sites I play with to keep me entertained. The biggest one suffered what I would describe as a perfect storm. One part of the application broke because a third party API I use started throwing warning messages that their wrapper did not handle. At the same time as I was trying to fix this, the hosting provider I use for the website decided to apply some changes to their shared hosting, which basically locked down security and absolutely toasted my site. Dead dead dead.
Granted it’s still early days but you can see from the traffic chart above that things seem to have recovered. If I gave up in the face of either of these setbacks it would indeed have been a perfect storm and my little site would have been out of business. But instead, after two weeks of relocating hosting, battling with databases, tweaking code, killing another site to avoid duplicate content, and a host of other points of attack I’m getting a bit of confidence back that this might be over.
Little Lessons for Mark: Wherever possible acquire a copy of source code, no site is too small to be worth monitoring, never give up until you are convinced you’ve exhausted the possibilities. And spend the money on better hosting providers.
