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The Movable Type/CPanel screw-up continues, despite good-faith efforts from everyone involved to get it fixed. The glitch means I have to rebuild the site manually every time I post anything, which sucks. It also means that the scripts which are supposed to notify me when a comment needs approval (and any comment that includes a link is held for approval) aren’t working either. I just went through the list and manually deleted more than 300 pieces of what appeared to be comment spam, and I approved about 20 comments that were being held. If yours doesn’t show up, it might have been deleted accidentally. Like I said, sorry.
Just to add to the festivities, I received an avalanche of comment spam (all of it blocked by MT-Blacklist, thankfully), a Slashdotting, and a Scobleizing or two over the past 48 hours.
The two hamsters who run this site are spinning themselves into a frenzy.
Oh, great. Now everything’s broken. The main page looks OK, but the individual pages for today’s entries are blank, and I can’t fix them.
Oh well, I’ll worry about this next week.
Aha. 1.7GB of core dump files from CPanel had used my entire disk quota. As soon as I deleted them, things returned to normal.
Update 7/12 6:00 p.m.: Continuing to get HTTP 1.1/500 errors. Core dump files continue to fill server space. Oxygen running low. Hamsters begging for relief. WordPress looking better and better. This should be trackback #11 on SixApart’s ProNet. Anil, what’s going on?
Ed Bott 
I notice a LOT of people having recurring (or new and different) problems with MovableType. Perhaps there’s room in the market for another blogging engine?
I’m still having the 500 errors.
I had the DBD module upgraded to the latest version, but it is still happening.
Help?
PS. It has nothing to do with server space, etc…
Yeah, I’m getting fewer errors, but they’re not all gone. And I’m still getting the core dump files in the MT folder on the server.
Anil, are you reading this?
Well since your site is powered by an open Source OS (Linux) and an Open Source Web Server (Apache), why not go with open source content management?
For example:
Drupal
Geeklog
e107
Mambo
PHPnuke
b2evolution
NucleusCMS
& WordPress
Just to name a few…
Sorry, was on a plane all day today… what you’re seeing is fairly different than the 500 errors I’ve heard described, I think we’ll need to find out more about what’s going on with your system. I’ll talk to our dev and support teams in the morning and see if I can finally get to the bottom of this.
As I mentioned before, I have WordPress installed on this server, but the logistics of migrating to a new CMS, open source or not, are nontrivial. We’ll see if SixApart can help resolve this.