Hey, I’m hearing from some readers that the blog isn’t always loading for them. I’ve had that problem too ever since my web host changed servers last week. If you’re encountering this problem, would you mind leaving a message in the comments when you finally do get through? I’d like to have a clear idea of how often it’s happening. Thanks.
It happened once at around 3 this afternoon, and then again just now. It took forever in loading and then timed out. Then I tried to load it again and it took two seconds
I’ve had trouble off and on over the last 4 or 5 days but I didn’t have any trouble before that. I’d assumed it was because of an overload of visitors checking out all the recent posts.
I had this problem for the first time today when I tried to visit your site by clicking on a link in Google Reader. Clicking “Refresh” brought your blog up. I have never had this problem when visiting your site directly. A few questions come to my mind: Are you on a shared server? If so, you may need a private app pool. Do you have a limit on your bandwidth? Could you be exceeding it? I am guessing the answer to my first question is yes and that that is where your problem lies. Good luck in getting it resolved.
It’s been reaalllly slow to load of late, timing out several times and just not loading at all. Maybe over the last week or so? Hard to remember, exactly, but for the last while the load has trouble more often than not (for me). Tonight, it was very slow and then loaded without all your fancy new header and sidebars and stuff. It has your new font for post titles, and the frame aroung the edges, but every post was just text. Then when I clicked through to leave this “trouble loading” comment, all the fancy new stuff returned. Weird. I’m using Internet Explorer with Windows XP– haven’t changed anythign lately on my end.
“Exploration,” says John Stilgoe, author of Outside Lies Magic, “is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is fun.”
Yes: it is so, so much fun, and that is why I write these posts all chattery with excitement over this or that connection the kids made today. (Or that I made myself!) I know I get carried away, but that’s the point, isn’t it, that way leading on to way has carried me away?
And yet—and yet—I think we are at once ‘carried away’ and made more fully present in the now, more rooted, by these relationships between ideas about things past and future. The joy of connection makes me want to celebrate this moment, this brief encounter with wild-haired child and broad-trunked tree, bus going by, sign on church wall, Scottish warlord creeping over the tower wall and startling the English soldier’s wife who has just put her babe in arms to sleep by crooning that the Black Douglas won’t get him. Child, laughing, shouting “Dinna ye be sae sure aboot that!” across the courtyard outside the library. How can I not celebrate this freedom?
Every day is complicated, messy, and full of friction. And every day has glorious or cozy moments worth celebrating. I seldom bother to chronicle the friction and the mess because writing time is fleeting and precious—and childhood even more so. I’d rather capture the small joys that I might forget—or take for granted—if I don’t take time to set them down in words.
(Excerpt from this post about Real Life, quoted here because I don't want anyone to be under the impression that things are always perfect around here! Heaven knows we are anything but. Perfect, frictionless, orderly? Nope. Happy? Most of the time!)
Be like the bird
Who, pausing in flight
On limb too slight,
Feels it give way beneath her,
Yet sings,
Knowing she has wings.
I often have trouble with your site coming up…it happened three times today!
Posted on March 31st, 2008 at 3:39 pmI made it thru….
Posted on March 31st, 2008 at 3:48 pmLaurie, I know you had trouble earlier today too.
Has it only been happening in the past week? Or ever since I switched from Typepad?
Posted on March 31st, 2008 at 4:07 pmIt happened once at around 3 this afternoon, and then again just now. It took forever in loading and then timed out. Then I tried to load it again and it took two seconds
Posted on March 31st, 2008 at 5:13 pmI’ve had trouble off and on over the last 4 or 5 days but I didn’t have any trouble before that. I’d assumed it was because of an overload of visitors checking out all the recent posts.
Posted on March 31st, 2008 at 5:17 pmI had this problem for the first time today when I tried to visit your site by clicking on a link in Google Reader. Clicking “Refresh” brought your blog up. I have never had this problem when visiting your site directly. A few questions come to my mind: Are you on a shared server? If so, you may need a private app pool. Do you have a limit on your bandwidth? Could you be exceeding it? I am guessing the answer to my first question is yes and that that is where your problem lies. Good luck in getting it resolved.
Posted on March 31st, 2008 at 6:12 pmI had trouble a few days ago but none since then. May just have been a hiccup.
Posted on March 31st, 2008 at 7:52 pmno trouble loading (although it was slow a few days ago) but the feed seems to have stopped. I use bloglines.
Posted on March 31st, 2008 at 8:34 pmReally? That’s strange. I’m seeing the feed on Google Reader with no problems. Anyone else not getting my feed?
The page load problem seems to be due to the server switch. Should be sorted out soon, I hear.
Posted on March 31st, 2008 at 9:24 pmI often do. Sometimes it just takes a long time. sometimes I get an error. The feed seems fine it is when I click through that I have problems.
Posted on April 1st, 2008 at 5:10 amTook a long time to load today, but I did get through (obviously!).
Posted on April 1st, 2008 at 6:19 amI got an error today, but I chopped off the blog part, went to melissawiley.com, then clicked blog and from there it worked great.
Posted on April 1st, 2008 at 8:06 amSometimes I can’t get to your site (it shows up in the Google feed but I can’t actually load up your page in my browser).
I don’t think it’s ever failed to show up in Google Reader, at least not for me.
Posted on April 1st, 2008 at 9:43 amIt’s been reaalllly slow to load of late, timing out several times and just not loading at all. Maybe over the last week or so? Hard to remember, exactly, but for the last while the load has trouble more often than not (for me). Tonight, it was very slow and then loaded without all your fancy new header and sidebars and stuff. It has your new font for post titles, and the frame aroung the edges, but every post was just text. Then when I clicked through to leave this “trouble loading” comment, all the fancy new stuff returned. Weird. I’m using Internet Explorer with Windows XP– haven’t changed anythign lately on my end.
Posted on April 1st, 2008 at 7:24 pmI was having trouble over the weekend, but it seems to have resolved itself.
However, my two previous comments have disappeared.
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 at 6:56 am