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Our hosting company – EngineHosting had a mass outage for about an hour. Sorry about that now.
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Sunday Supplement
It being Sunday, we’ve all got time to consider and ponder things at greater length than during the working week, yes? If it’s good enough for the Sunday papers, it’s good enough for this guest blogger. So here’s the review section… Actually, it’s my introduction to a book published last year, Goin’ Down Slow: selected [...] read our review » -
Round up of Tuesday’s Political Studies Association conference
If you want to get a flavour of the proceedings at the Political Studies Association conference on its opening day, then the Storify collation below will bring you some of the images, tweets and sounds of the day. Particular highlights included: the Opening Plenary with David Blunkett, Peter Riddell and Matthew Flinders; and the late [...] read our review »
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Eamon Nancarrow’s misadventures in Rock…
It’s the quiet ones you have to watch, they say. When I last saw Eamonn Namcarrow, back in the mid 1980s he was a congenial, good-natured and highly sociable young lad. The next time was 26 years later, in Lavery’s Gin Palace in Bradbury Place. He’d just brought out his first book, Holywood Star about [...] read our review »
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Tell the truth. You spilled your Diet Coke on the server again, right?
Diet coke? You’ll be hearing from our lawyers …
Seems a general problem. Quite a number of hosting servers seem to have had an outage this evening.
You seriously pay that? There’s cheaper options than that!
Sorry, couldn’t help looking them up.
How come letters with fada in contributors names are deleted?
Tochais Síoraí
but below it’s
Nerdy,
Expression Engine hosting is no trivial matter. Other sites are hosted for a lot less, but we were getting constant site outtage whenever we had more than a couple of dozen simultaneous visits. The only company that hosts EE well is the company that developed the system in the first place. We’re moving to wordpress shortly and that will save us a fair bit.
TS,
I’ve often wondered that as well – and the current system is quite hard to get into – it only really does the English language characters properly. There may be a setting in the database that I could change, but I suspect that fixing this problem would result in me breaking the rest of the site altogether
In the not-too-distant, we’ll have a new WordPress site and I *think* that it’s a lot more tolerant and a lot less US-centric than Expression Engine (the current system)
Damned Yanks. Thanks, Paul.
Understand Paul, I’ve used WordPress a lot and it should be a lot less stressful on resources.
It doesn’t allow a fada in the username but does allow them in your first, last, nick and display names.
I just tested it and tést is stored as tst if used as a username. There’s no warning and the username can’t be changed without manually changing it in the database.
There *may* be a plugin to enable username changes.