Headache

My server reached the four month mark — 120 days 23 hours, actually — earlier today. Incidentally, cPanel automatically upgraded my exim installation into oblivion earlier today too (during its nightly update cycle). So, I had to panic (first) and then reboot the system to get a “defunct” exim process to finally quit (it wouldn't terminate via the UNIX kill command even with the “dash nine” switch). Fortunately, I did get everything recovered after reading some helpful threads from others running into the same issue over at WebHostingTalk.com.

I also had some problems with FaithTree.com eating up all of my system's CPU cycles, but as it turned out, somehow I had set it to download all of the RSS feeds and weather every minute. It takes probably 5-10 minutes for one update to complete, so that meant it was constantly downloading things multiple times. Ouch. I guess that is why my bandwidth usage was forty-five times higher this month than last month (prior to me migrating FaithTree). I noticed the bandwidth problem today too.

What a day. I think I'll go eat the (formerly warm) dinner I was getting ready to eat two hours ago before things spiraled out of control. Hopefully things will be stable now.