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An Explanation of the Recent Site Outage

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:15:59 +0000

I think many of you noticed that my site was unreachable for the whole day yesterday. Let me explain what happened. It was definitely not because I wanted to give up on the blog XD.

The night before last, while I was writing a post, I logged into the wrong host. I have two servers: one for the site and one for writing posts. While I was writing, I accidentally logged into the site server and made some changes there. I didn’t realize my mistake until I finished the post… So the server that runs the site got messed up. The Apache configuration file was overwritten, and unluckily I had no backup of it. I had only backed up the site folder and the database, and I never imagined I would do something this stupid XD. So the site went down for a whole day…

The Blog Is Moving to a New Host, DirectSpace, and I May Not Be Able to Write Posts from 7/11 to 7/15

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:03:03 +0000

Let me recall: about half a year ago, I couldn’t put up with the stability and performance of the shared hosting service Bumeng, so I switched to renting a semi-managed VPS from a company called PhotonVPS. Since it was my first time trying a VPS, I was worried I would regret it, so at the time I only paid for half a year. Then yesterday (7/7), the six-month VPS contract expired, so I moved the site to another VPS provider, called DirectSpace.

The Zhufeng Tech Blog Is Now Live~

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:58:25 +0000

It’s been a busy day. From getting the site set up yesterday to getting the domain bound today, it’s been about 24 hours~ I hereby officially announce: the Zhufeng Tech Blog is live~

The Zhufeng Tech Blog is a branch site of the Wind Chaser blog. The site owner is the same person, but the articles on the Zhufeng Tech Blog will be more in-depth, focusing on technical topics like programming languages and web design. Currently the posting frequency is about two articles a week; if I have time it’ll be more, but it won’t drop below two a week. Also, as for ads on the Zhufeng Tech Blog, I can guarantee that there won’t be any ads for the first six months, because the funding for the next six months is definitely enough to keep the site running, and the ad revenue from the main site is still sufficient.

Zhufeng Tech Blog permalink: https://coder.tw/
Zhufeng Tech Blog permanent RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tfeng-tech

The Blog Turns Two!

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:00:10 +0000

Two years. Not short, not long. I’ve gone from a junior high student back then to a first-year high school student now. I went through the Basic Competence Test (jīcè), went through a lot, and learned a lot. My blog has also changed, from the very first one, “Simple, Non-Computer” (Jiǎndān Fēi Diànnǎo) on Wretch, a Taiwanese blog service, all the way to today’s WordPress blog, “The Wind Chaser” (Zhú Fēng Zhě). Time really flies, and two years have just passed like that!! It feels like a blink of an eye, just like when I graduated from elementary school and couldn’t help looking back on those years, even all the way back to kindergarten, and realized six years had slipped away. It’s a little sentimental, but also quite happy, because I’ve grown up XD, and so has my blog ^^

Moved to a Taiwan Host and a New Domain~

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:16:11 +0000

Before I knew it, a whole year had gone by. The virtual hosting I was using from server zoo was also about to expire. During this period I had a slightly bad impression of server zoo. At one point they said something about a system problem or whatever, and that files might be corrupted (luckily mine were fine XD). I was really annoyed back then. But they later made up for it with compensation, so it was fine, and my data didn’t disappear^^

[Announcement] Switching to the Pyrmont V2 Theme – Feedback Welcome

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:12:11 +0000

Hi everyone~

Long time no see.

I haven’t been posting much lately, and you probably all know why: the junior high school basic competence test has been wearing me down…

Still, I know posting less hasn’t been a good thing.

I was also getting tired of the iNove theme I’d been using.

Most importantly, the iNove theme loaded too slowly.

Blog SEO Essentials: Must-Do Steps to Push Your Blog Rankings UP! UP! UP!

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:30:20 +0000

In this post, I’m going to share a few SEO tasks that I think are essential when setting up a blog. But first, a disclaimer: I’m not an expert, so some of what I say may be wrong. I’d appreciate your corrections (not criticism). Also, most of the methods in this post don’t apply to BSPs (blog service providers) such as Wretch and Yam Sky Blog……

Most people who run a blog probably want to be popular, with lots of readers visiting their posts instead of writing only for themselves. But how do you get people to read your posts? That’s what SEO is for! (If you don’t know whatSEOis, you can read about it onWikipedia) However, SEO isn’t a simple technique. Doing it well might even require hiring a designer, which is a bit too much trouble for a blogger. But learning SEO yourself isn’t easy either. So in this post, I’ll share the techniques I’ve tried.

blogupp - Get Your Posts Seen by More People

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:35:50 +0000

You’ve probably seen a scrolling widget on other people’s blogs. That’s actually a service from blogupp. blogupp can get your posts seen by more people, but your blog needs to have an RSS feed (by the way, my RSS has been having problems = =).

Some people may wonder how blogupp works. Basically, blogupp just reads your blog’s RSS feed. It’s a bit like a blog syndication network, but blogupp’s reach is even bigger. blogupp also supports multiple languages. In fact, as soon as you enter the blogupp website, it automatically switches to Chinese!

Website: http://www.blogupp.com/

blogupp Features

No account registration required
Your email and privacy are never exposed
No extra advertising agreements or other requirements
Anti-fraud system and fair sharing principles
Reach your target readers
Exposure rewards for new users
Good support for Blogger, WordPress, and other similar platforms
The industry's highest exchange ratio (10:9)

whos.amung.us - The Online Visitor Counter Bloggers Love

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:10:05 +0000

whos.amung.us is the best-known counter I know of. It can count how many people are online right now, and whos.amung.us can also tell you which posts those visitors are reading. Most importantly, whos.amung.us requires no registration and costs nothing. You don’t have to give them any information to use their service.

URL: http://whos.amung.us/

Small Market Strategy - An Easy Path to Becoming a Popularity Champion

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:40:16 +0000

In this post, I’m going to teach you a strategy for building popularity: the small market strategy. What is the small market strategy? I’m sure you all know that for a blog to become well known, it needs good SEO, and its articles need to be good too! Many books about gaining popularity say you should write about hot keywords so people will read your posts. But that… isn’t necessarily right. If you understand how SEO works, you know that the more links a web page has, the higher it ranks in search engines. In other words, if your site doesn’t get many visitors, your articles won’t rank near the top. For example, suppose I write an article about Gmail right now. If you search for it in a search engine, you might find your article on page 2 or 3, or not at all. Even if it ranks on the first page, if the articles ahead of yours are all very similar to yours,

All Blog Optimization Work Is Done!

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:22:59 +0000

Haha~

Summer vacation is almost over.

I’ve finally finished all the optimization work on the blog.

I’m sure everyone has noticed that pages load faster now!

dokoda - Forced Full-Text Reading for RSS

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:25:39 +0000

dokoda offers a very special yet practical feature: it converts ordinary RSS feeds into full-text RSS. If you use a computer a lot, you probably know about RSS and subscribe to some feeds. If so, you’ll know that some sites don’t show their full articles in the RSS feed, to get people to visit the site. You have to click through to read the rest, which wastes a lot of time for people with slow connections. dokoda can convert those RSS feeds into full-text ones. Amazing, right! Now let Ting-feng show you around this site.

Cbox Blog Comment Board Plugin: Limited to 100 Comments

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:29:49 +0000

I’m sure you’ve often seen a guestbook plugin in the sidebar of other people’s blogs and wanted one for yourself, right? Today I’m introducing Cbox, one of the best free guestbook services on the web. Cbox is excellent in many ways, but the maximum number of comments is 100, so you have to delete old comments regularly. Its anti-spam is also weak, so it’s easy for advertising comments to flood it. = = Even so, Cbox has some advantages, such as letting you use emoticons. Below, I’ll show you how to sign up for Cbox.

URL: http://www.cbox.ws/

Go to the Cbox homepage and click Sign up.

The Ministry of Education Blog Contest Results Are Coming Out Today!

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:25:21 +0000

Today………………

It’s a very special day

Because????????? Today the results of the blog contest are finally coming out!

I’m really looking forward to seeing my ranking

Because this is the first contest I’ve entered since elementary and middle school

And it’s my first time in a national-level contest, and I made it to the finals :)

If I win a prize, that would be awesome xD

But the Ministry of Education clearly said the results would be announced today

[Announcement] Error Reports & Suggestions

Sun, 10 May 2009 22:40:13 +0000

I’ve been using Firefox lately, so I hadn’t noticed that this blog has problems when it’s opened in Internet Explorer.

For example, page script errors, or the sidebar sinking to the bottom, and so on.

To give other visitors a better environment,

I’d like readers who run into these problems to report them here.

The report format is as follows:

Operating system:

Screen resolution:

Computer type: (laptop or desktop)

Time: (when the problem occurred)