Dead Gravatar
Posted: December 22nd, 2004 | Author: Vitor | Filed under: Internet |It seems that:
Dreamhost shut down gravatar.com today without notice and kindly told me that I was monopolizing their server’s entire processor.
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I’m going to try to do some fancy pants caching and optimizing of the avatar serving script to reduce resource utilization and see if they find that acceptable. If that doesn’t work then I guess I’ll have to swing for a dedicated server
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