Okay, maybe tomorrow...

On the issue of Blogdrive's downtime, that's what I've been saying to myself for the past god knows how long. Maybe it'll get better tomorrow, maybe it'll get better tomorrow, I should just leave this work until tomorrow, it'll get better tomorrow and so on...

And now I wonder how much patience can you give to something that doesn't give you any results at all.

And worst of all having to be insulted by another one of Blogdrive's pacifier, sigh such is the world in US of America.

I'm so dead!

From a topic in the forums, in responce to Klubbkidd's frustration and many other fellow bloggers: http://www.blogdrive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=25338#25338

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I paid (for three years), I get kicked in the ass too.

Klubbkidd, I've been following your blog every now and then. I also know the volume of visitors you attract, I believe it's in the thousands per day category making it one of the most popular blogs on Blogdrive.

However, seeing that you are doing a serious business you should have left Blogdrive a long time ago. There are better service out there not to mention they are free too.

When BD announced that they are moving data centers, I crossed my fingers and hoped that this'll be the last time we'll be having any problems or discomfort. Till now, one month later it's just as it is before. Pointless.

I guess the only thing you'll lose when you switch, which would also be the most crucial part of it all, is your current blog address. That alone bring many other big disadvantages: Your permalinks and status that you've gathered up until today will all be lost, losing out in search engine rankings. And the complication with what your visitors are familiar with.

My advice to you is this: give BD one more chance, say two weeks. If this big moving of data center doesn't get better in two weeks, by all means, MOVE. Get outta Blogdrive, don't let your potential be hold back by some Californian startup. Flap your wings and fly.

How to overcome external JS issues?

For many times now, Blogdrive have chosen to insert an additional text into all blogs and pages "informing" users they are upgrading servers. Sure, we should actually be grateful that they are in fact "informing" us, which under normal circumstances, they don't.

Blogdrive automatically inserts this line of code into the end of all files stored on Blogdrive. Including CSS and JS files.

<p align=center>Upgrading servers.
We'll be back up in a few of minutes.
We are currently storing submitted entries
for later processing.</p>

Now, let's not let the issue of "informing" users of downtime. The issue I'm facing now, has to do with Blogdrive, automatically inserting additional text into my .js files, making them obsolete and not working. I use lotsa external javascript files which are hosted on Blogdrive. But whenever they insert this tags, all my blogs would fail to execute.

So the solution to this problem, without informing Blogdrive of the problem (as they are always too "busy" to pay any attention to a Magnum (plan 4) subscriber such as myself), I simple insert a double slash at the very end of all my js documents.

It does the trick, wonderfully. By inserting a double slash, I basically "comment-out" the auto-inserted code.

Oh, how genius of me to stop a war, not get angry fix the small problem.

Blogdrive sending multiple Email Notification

It seems to be occuring more and more often, every time I make a new entry I would receive several email notifications. (Mind you, I'm one of the more narcistic fella who subscribes to his own blog just because I love myself so much)

Anyway, I think it's just a minor glitch and could be something to do with the system restarting the process over and over again when it couldn't send out emails. Or maybe something else.

I hope Blogdrive will fix this soon too, because it might cause my readers to unsubscribe from me because the email notifications clutter their inbox. Like spam.

Reference: Multiple notifications, Blogdrive sending several mails on entry updates?
Tags: Blogdrive, Email, Notifications, Subscriptions,