The Royal Representative

Archive for the ‘Maintenance’ Category

I wanted to make a note that I’ve changed the category names around. Under “Monarchies”, you will now find each royal house titled “British Royalty”, “Japanese Royalty”, etc. It seemed more organized that way. If it has caused any hiccups in your bookmarks, I do apologize.

Two posts had to be deleted. They seemed to be causing the blog to slow down, and because of that, the side bar’s categories disappeared as if they couldn’t load.

I think it was due to the images. One was the Queen at Ascot, and the other was Camilla during Trooping the Colo(u)r, and for some reason those were the culprits for the lag-time. Usually photos from PicApp.com are not like that.

I apologize for the inconvenience!

UPDATES

• The Queen’s biography page is missing. I am going to upload it again sometime later today.
• My Royal Memoriam page was complete and up-to-date until I transferred “MBR” to a new server. I still need to complete that, so look for that to be back soon!

Apparently PodcastPeople.com is having some technical difficulties, so the Nepali elections discussion and the Majesty magazine review for April is on hold. I will let you know when things are posted. :) Thank you!

Once in while I like to check on the blog, just in passing, to see if all is well. Usually it is. Lately, however, things have been mighty wierd, and it all seems to stem from Flickr. Perhaps some of you Flickr-literate people can help me sort this out?

Once upon a time, Long Ago, It was a dark and stormy night, etc., I wanted to log in to the blog, but found that I couldn’t do it. Spread out before me was a “Page not found” error, and it was directly from Flickr. Yet it was was my blog’s address! What was happening?

My main website was ok, but this Flickr error page coming from the blog’s address is a complete mystery. All I did was update Wordpress with its latest version via FTP.

So I remove Flickr badge from said blog. I thought that might be the cause. No such luck, so I decided to wait and see what would happen. The blog eventually returned to normal, so I thought I was safe.

The next thing I know, the error page is back again. What to do? My fiance said that because my Flickr pictures badge is on the main website, that may have something to do with it. There may be some sort of error somewhere, and the Flickr error page just happens to be the first error page that you get sent to. It is overriding my personalized error page from CPanel.

Huh?

So if any of you out there know what to do, please let me know. For the time being, I’m afraid I will have to get rid of the Flickr badge on the site. You can still access the photos by going to Flickr and searching for me (MandysRoyalty).

So I am getting the feeling that I will have to perform an exorcism soon, and thus Flickr will be no more.

I update the blog with the latest version of Wordpress, and all hell breaks loose. That’s not supposed to happen!

Please pardon the weirdness that happened with the Royal Representative (AND August Annotations). I’m not quite sure what happened after I updated, but when I visited the blog to make sure all was well, it gave me an error page from Flickr!

I apologize for the inconvenience. Thankfully everything is back to normal. Never a dull moment….

If you visit Mandy’s British Royalty and find a “Forbidden: no access to this server” message, don’t panic! My web server is undergoing a massive migration, so there will be some downtime.

When it is back online, this blog will be integrated with the website itself. This work may take a little time, so you don’t have to change your bookmarks just yet!

More news later…

Mandy’s British Royalty has apparently had a server upgrade. During that time, it seems everything that I did on the site in the last month or so has disappeared. Things are still basically the same, which is great; but my newer updates, like the new title, the new August Annotations ad, and the re-direct link to the Royal Representative have gone. I will remake them as soon as I can.

I would really, really love to have an email address that reflects my domain name, i.e. me (at) mandysroyalty.org for example. But for some reason, things just are not working out. I am going to keep working on the problem, so keep using the yahoo.com address until further notice.

Cpanel (my webserver) is strange. Going through the “Manage Accounts” link to get to my email is not, in fact, the same email box as the “Check webmail” link. I go to one inbox to send an email, and it tells me I can’t - the account is full and I need to empty some folders. The thing is, there’s nothing in those folders. So what’s going on? So I go to the “Webmail” link, and there are 851 messages telling me that all of my email has been bounced back because my account is full.

Sometimes email comes into one inbox but not the other, so I have to keep checking both all the time. Although why I have to do this, I do not know.

Groan!!

But never fear, I WILL figure this out.

There is something severely wrong with the statistics counter “Sitemeter”. Apparently their server is down and no one can get any information from the people who run it. Sitemeter is just gone.

However, some may look on this as a good thing, since Sitemeter has allegedly been using spyware. I’m now trying StatCounter instead, sort of like a trial run! They seem very good thus far.