Increased instability at DreamHost, even after upgrading hardware, has forced us to move pfblogs.org to a virtual dedicated server elsewhere. You should no longer have any problems accessing the website once the changes have fully propagated throughout the Internet. This will also improve viewing the pfblogs.org feeds and using the blogroll on your […]
You may have noticed a conspicuous thermometer gracing the pages of pfblogs.org and a number of personal finance blogs. This thermometer is measuring donations within a campaign to fund personal finance lessons in public schools.
HC at One Big Mortarboard has organized a campaign to raise a total of $1,500 out of about […]
This weekend, our web host, DreamHost, moved pfblogs.org as well as a number of other servers to a new location. Since that move, the fetching software has become unreliable. I’ve devised a temporary work-around until it is feasible to move the aggregator to a new location.
If you have the ability to help with […]
The load on the server has been very high, so we have instituted a 10-minute cache on most pages on pfblogs.org. In most cases, you shouldn’t notice anything other than fewer server errors and hopefully a marked speed increase in general. The click counts for entries will be delayed, but still recorded in […]
It seems that over the Thanksgiving holiday, we’ve been experiencing some technical difficulties. The fetching software hosted at MediaTemple has stopped functioning properly. I’m flying back in to town tomorrow, so I should be able to fix the issues over the weekend. In the mean time, I’ve been running the fetching program […]
DreamHost hosts the pfblogs.org web server and database. I’ve been a customer of theirs since 2001, and the last two years or so have been rough. We’re sticking with them for now, but the fetching software will not run. The RSS parser seems to use significant CPU power, and Dreamhost kills any […]
I sent out the first email to those who expressed interest in the pfblogs.org Advisory Panel. We could still use a few more voices, so if you’re interested (and you’ve been involved with the personal finance blogging community for a while), send an email to webmaster at this domain.
Update: Thanks to everyone who responded! […]
I’d like to focus on expanding the real estate and investing sections of pfblogs.org during the month of November. The real estate section can include blogs about the housing bubble, Realtors’ blogs, real estate investing, purchasing a home, etc.. In the investing section, we will include blogs about the stock market, other investments, […]
A change to the pinging programming is causing a problem, and I won’t be able to fix it until this evening. Until then, pinging is disabled. Feeds will still be fetched on the regular schedule.
Update: Pinging service has returned, including the 5 minute delay for those using Feedburner. Please make sure you […]
Thanks to everyone who informed me of their interest in the pfblogs.org Advisory Panel. I’ll be contacting a bunch of you in the next few weeks to send you more information and get things started.
There’s now a simpler way to request listing on pfblogs.org. It’s as simple as filling out a form. […]
I’m looking for a few good (and historied) bloggers to join the pfblogs.org Advisory Panel. Email the webmaster at this domain if you’re interested, and I’ll pass along more information regarding the plans for the Panel.
This should be a welcome update for those who like to see their blog entries make their way to pfblogs.org faster than the normal 30 minute fetching cycle. If your blog software supports it, you can now ping pfblogs.org’s server to fetch your feed.
Get your numerical blog ID by finding your blog on […]
Sorry if pfblogs.org seems a little sluggish today. The server seems to be handling some database queries slower than usual. Hopefully the problem will take care of itself.
For those who love RSS, especially with its ability to be incorporated directly into blogs for sidebars, etc., we have created four new pfblogs.org RSS feeds. Here are the details.
http://pfblogs.org/pop/feed/ displays the most popular headlines (all topics) from the past 24 hours
http://pfblogs.org/inv/pop/feed/ displays the most popular investing headlines from the past 24 hours
http://pfblogs.org/re/pop/feed/ displays […]
You may have noticed that pfblogs.org runs much faster this morning. I analyzed some of the database queries last night and came to the conclusion the site was running very inefficiently in some cases, particularly the way ratings were calculated. With 25 entries displayed on a page, and each ratings query taking about […]