Oneida

I have a double opt-in subscriber list for people who want to be notified when new material is added to my site. That is the only list I have and most definitely is not spam. But AOL has started bouncing them today (along with some other ISPs that apparently use AOL's spam list) because, "The information presently available to AOL indicates this server is generating high volumes of member complaints from AOL's member base. Based on AOL's Unsolicited Bulk E-mail policy at http://www.aol.com/info/bulkemail.html AOL may not accept further e-mail transactions from this server or domain." I've never run into this before and wonder if someone else on server 46 has been sending spam. I've pasted in the full headers and e-mail below (the AOL member's name has been redacted) and would welcome any suggestions about how to deal with this. Thanks, Oneida == Return-path: <> Envelope-to: notify_list@eces.org Delivery-date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 01:39:40 -0500 Received: from mailnull by server46.totalchoicehosting.com with local (Exim 4.24) id 1Ay3Z6-0006KY-0g for notify_list@eces.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2004 01:39:40 -0500 X-Failed-Recipients: redacted@aol.com Auto-Submitted: auto-generated From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@server46.totalchoicehosting.com> To: notify_list@eces.org Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Message-Id: <E1Ay3Z6-0006KY-0g@server46.totalchoicehosting.com> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 01:39:40 -0500 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. 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To: redacted@aol.com Sender: notify_list@eces.org Reply-To: ECES New Entry Notify List <notify_list@eces.org> Precedence: list Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 List: notify List-Archive: <http://www.eces.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?f=archive&l=notify> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Dada Mail 2.8.12b SMTP X-Priority: 3 Content-Disposition: inline List-Subscribe: <http://www.eces.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?f=s&l=notify> Message-ID: <20040302011328.44775147.notify_list@eces.org> List-URL: <http://www.eces.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?l=notify> List-ID: <notify.server46.totalchoicehosting.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Owner: <notify_list@eces.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.eces.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?f=u&l=notify> X-Bulkmail: 3.09 A new entry has been posted at Earth Crash Earth Spirit: ENTRY DATE: February 19, 2004 TITLE: Experts warn U.S. could be headed for an "unmitigated disaster" this spring if declining natural gas supplies and more cold weather lead to sharp price hikes and outright shortages, resulting in homes without heat and factories without fuel. EXCERPT: According to the Christian Science Monitor, the United States is skating on the edge of another big jump in natural-gas prices this spring - perhaps even a shortage that, depending upon the weather and its severity, could leave residents shivering and cause some industrial customers to curtail operations. Analysts describe the situation with varying degrees of alarm, from "an unmitigated disaster" to "tight" on supplies. Last week, Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, spoke of his "chronic concern" about how a sharp spike in natural-gas prices would affect the economy. Most people in the U.S. would quickly feel the effects of a severe shortage - and subsequent price hike. Natural-gas utilities, with 64 million customers in the U.S., provide 24 percent of all energy consumed. Their gas heats and cools millions of homes, and increasingly is burned to generate electricity. Natural gas is both a fuel and a feedstock for the nation's $460 billion chemical industry with its one million employees. "The problem is awfully serious," says Matthew Simmons, head of Simmons & Co. in Houston, an investment bank specializing in the energy industry. "It's shaping up for an unmitigated disaster." LINK: http://www.eces.org/articles/000818.php Oneida Kincaid Earth Crash Earth Spirit http://www.eces.org/ -- To unsubscribe from the ECES New Entry Notification List, just follow this link: http://www.eces.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?....com&p=redacted Click the above link, or copy and paste it into your browser.

I have another stat program (LogitPro) that runs off a javascript call and writes to its own database. After comparing them for curiosity's sake a few times right after I moved to TCH and finding that the day-to-day trends reported by LogitPro and Awstats seemed to track each other fairly well, I haven't usually bothered to compare them. However, I couldn't help noticing some large variations between them after Awstats started getting updated in the afternoon instead of early morning, which led me to believe that it was the variations in update time that were causing the variances. But I visited the Awstats website and see it is a log file analysis program, so you're right, it is time and date based. Curious. Anyway, thanks for the great tip, TCH-Dick! I'll definitely give that try. Oneida

I would like to second BluegrassGardener's comments. I like the Awstats program, particularly for tracking day-to-day trends, but that function is pretty much useless when the update times vary as much as they have over the last week or so. It used to be that it was fairly regularly updated around 2 or 3 a.m. each night, but during the last week it's been updated as late as 7 p.m. (19:37 yesterday, and still no update today). Frankly, given the wide variety of update times, I got the impression that it was something that you all were manually triggering. Indeed, my reason for visiting the forum was to ask if it couldn't be set by a chron job so there would be some consistency in the update time. I decided to first do a search to see if anyone else had posted about the issue and found a TCH response to an earlier post (http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7281&hl=awstats) that said: That puzzles me, as the server load should typically be much lower at 2 or 3 a.m. than the 3 to 7 p.m. times it has been updating at in the last week. Anyway, it is possible for me to use cPanel's chron job utility to set it to run at, say, 2 a.m.? Thanks, Oneida http://www.eces.org/

On the redirect page in cPanel, what is the practical difference between temporary and permanent redirects? Thanks, Oneida

Yes, I found phpMyAdmin right off the bat. The problem was that I really shouldn't try to do stuff like this at 3 in the morning. Last night when I was thinking about using phpMyAdmin to move the sql dump into the database at TCH, all I could think of is that I would have write a complicated INSERT script to do it. But your response triggered some clearer thinking now that I've had some sleep, so I tried having phpMyAdmin run the sql dump as a query and it worked like a charm. Thanks!! Oneida

Well, I took the plunge today and signed up for a TCH gold account. Gosh, they were fast - I could access the new site in less than an hour! I got Movable Type installed and running pretty quickly, but I've run into a problem moving the MySQL database to TCH from the previous host. I used phpMyAdmin at the old site to create a gz dump, then used the cPanel backup/restore function to upload and restore it to the database at TCH. But it's quitting after creating the first table (mt_authors) and not putting any of the data into the table. I also tried creating separate dumps for each table, but the same problem happens with those, too - I get the TABLE CREATED message that lists all the fields, but none of the data gets inserted. I noticed in one of the forum postings that another person was also having problems migrating their database to TCH and TCH said they could do it if the old site also used cPanel. Unfortunately, my old site uses PlusMail (a dinosaur compared to cPanel). I'm wondering if there is some type of incompatibility between how phpMyAdmin and cPanel do MySql gz dumps? Do I need to delete the MT tables and let cPanel's restore function recreate them? Or is there some other way to move the database? (I know MT has an import/export function, but it doesn't preserve the entry ID, which totally messes up links to other entries and would be an awful mess to straighten out.) Aside from that, everythings been fun so far at TCH. Thanks, Oneida

I also use MovableType. I haven't had problems with server timeouts (so far) at my current host, but I am having problems with not being able to use certain plugins because of an outdated DBI perl module and no Storable perl module. I ran across a reference to TCH at a MT guru's site and am impressed with how it compares to my current host, which I've been with for 5 years and up to now have been very pleased with. My question also concerns the potential for server timeouts in MT. At present I only have about 300 entries in MT, but after I get the perl module problems resolved (either here or with my current host), I will be importing several thousand articles from a different format into MT. The problem with MT, of course, is that any change to the layout (aside from css changes) usually requires rebuilding everything. MT allows one to configure how many entries it rebuilds at one time - the default is 40, but conceivably could be a low as one, so I've alway assumed that timeouts during rebuilding will not be a problem even with several thousand entries, given a reasonably fast server and how fast MySQL is. However, I may be wrong about that. I'm also concerned about Shogun's mention of server timeouts during comment submission, and so am interested in any thoughts that TCH's techs might have about the potential for server timeouts during rebuilds or comment submission, as well as the experience of MT users currently hosted by TCH. The web site involved is a totally non-profit, non-commercial .org on environmental issues that I pay for out of my own pocket. Given that I have a very limited income, a dedicated server is not feasible. It currently gets about 3,000 visitors per day during weekdays, with 15,000-20,000 page views, so if I move to TCH, I would probably sign up for the "Gold" hosting plan. Thanks, Oneida