Prolific WordPress infographic

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My favorite statistic/info from the infographic:

WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today powering nearly 8.5% of all websites on the net.

Mentioned in the WordPress infographic:

• Matt Mullenweg
• Mike Litte
• WordPress.com
• WordPress.org
• Automattic
• Ping-O-Matic
• bbPress
• Akismet
• PHP
• MySQL
• All in one SEO Pack
• Google XML Sitemaps
• Contact Form 7
• WP Super Cache
• WPTouch iPhone Theme
• Hello Dolly
• WordCamp’s
• The GPL
• Happy Cog
• TED
• The New York Times
• TechCrunch
• Pepsi
• Kobe Byrant
• Levi’s
• Forbes
• Get Satisfaction
• The PGA
• The British Prime Minister
• WPTavern
• tosh.0
• National Geographic Magazine
• Blackberry
• Arras Theme
• TwentyTen
• LightWord
• Thematic
• Constructor
• Pixel
• Frameworks
• ElegantThemes
• Crowd Favorite
• iThemes
• HeadwayThemes
• Organic Themes
• Themeforest
• Brian Gardner and StudioPress
• Thad Allendar at Graph Paper Press
• Chris Pearson and Thesis Theme
• Adii Pienaar and team from WooThemes
• Jason Schuller of Press75
• BuddyPress
• Andy Peatling
• The WordPress Foundation
• the 3.0 kitten
• Page.ly
• Authoritylabs.com

I love infographics but what makes this special and the reason why I love this one more than other infographics is because it’s about my favorite blogging tool – WordPress! Kudos to Joshua Strebel and Page.ly for creating and sharing this beautiful and informative infographic.

Any of your favorite WordPress blogger, theme developer, theme, plugin, software or tools got mentioned in the infographic? What other information or statistics about WordPress would you like to see added to the infographic? Please share your thoughts.

If you noticed that this blog was inaccessible in the past 24 hours, its because I’ve migrated it to my new web host. DNS propagation usually takes about 24 hours to take effect, depending on your location. Just wanted to update you guys about that so you know what happened and I’m also sharing with you my recent experience with web hosting issues.

This month of October has been the worst month for me and my blog in terms of web hosting. Would you believe that I’ve migrated my blog at least 6 times just this month? In my effort to find a new webhost, I opened an account with 2 other web hosts but for some certain reasons, it didn’t work out so I had to migrate back to my previous host. Anyways, what prompted me to go and find a different web host was the “issues” I had with my previous hosting provider.

Most of you guys know that my blog’s hosting account got suspended several times due to “high cpu usage”. I tried installing WP Super Cache and other plugins that will help minimize the load on my server, decreased the search engine crawl rate on my blog and tweaked my robots.txt file all in the effort of avoiding using up my server’s cpu resources. Unfortunately all of those efforts were in vain because I still got my account suspended not once, twice but three times! When I asked my web host for the reason why they suspended my account, they gave the same answer – “high cpu usage“. This time, I asked them what could be causing the high cpu usage and the Level 2 Tech Support people gave me these lame answers/excuses.

This is because the site is open for anyone to search for whatever they want, and this can cause malicious users to abuse this, which in this case it appears they have. The easiest fix for this is to make a log in and for anyone to search, perform a GET search, they must be logged in.

It looks like you have your website setup with a forum script or members site that is publicly accessable. youll need to adjust your website so that only members who are logged in can view pages / posts / profiles / images. This should resolve the issue. I am unsuspending the account. Please make the changes.

A blog is a forum, its a specific form of forum, however it is based on the same software. One page, that holds several posts. i do not know if the site has profiles or not. I got the information because i work at a hosting company and do this work every day all day and happen to know that when ever a site is suspended and in the abuse report it contains several hundred apache get requests to random files and directories, such as 3fb5c0424e085100d6b88904b308d6b0.css?t=1027215365 the problem is that the site / profiles/ forum/ blog/ community/ what ever it is, is configured to be openly accessible to the internet and because of this someone or some group of people are access the site in an abusive way, often times looking for exploits. These requests overload the server. The fix is to disable the site so it is not open accessible to anyone who is not logged in with a correct username and password.

Btw, my blog was hosted on a reseller account and because of these “high cpu usage” issues, they were trying to get me to upgrade to a VPS account. With that and these lame answers, I knew that they were just trying to make money and get me to upgrade my account. It was at this time that I decided to move out and find a new web host.

After checking out my options, I finally decided to go with ServInt who I found via BloggingTips.com and purchased a VPS account. My blog has only been with them for a day but I’ve opened my account about 2 days ago and since then I’ve been dealing with their customer support. Based on my experience with their support, all I can say that their customer support and service is AWESOME! They have 24/7 support and free phone support. Not only did they help me with the setup and answered my questions but support was replying to my tickets even at 1 AM! Their sales and tech support aren’t only friendly and helpful but also very knowledgeable.

I tried migrating the other day but had some issues because of an old version of MySQL so I had to wait until support upgraded it before I was able to restore my WordPress database backup. Now that I’ve successfully migrated my blog to its new home on the web, I can now get back to blogging and focus on more important stuff like my upcoming blog contest.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that I won’t have any major web hosting issues again and that everything would work out with my new web host – ServInt.

NOTE: Just to be clear, my previous web host/hosting provider was NOT TechHive. TechHive was just using a reseller account from another hosting company. All of the problems/issues I had was with the other hosting company, not TechHive.

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I signed-up last Friday but I was too busy and didn’t have time to do it. So if you noticed any downtime earlier, that because I was setting up my account, moving all my files and restoring my backups and finished around 1 AM Sunday morning. I supposed to finish this entry and publish it but I was so sleepy. The transition went well and I didn’t have any problems restoring my backups. The only thing that caused delay was me trying to get used to Dreamhost’s user panel. It’s totally different from Cpanel of which I’ve been using for a long time.

I’d also like to thank the guys at IGB for hosting my blog totally free for several years. You’ve been a great help to me and for JaypeeOnline.Net and I will never forget your kindness and hospitality.

Other Updates:

First update: When WordPress 2.1.3 was released, I wasn’t able to upgrade my installation right away because I was more worried about the problems I was experiencing within my blog. The only time I was able to upgrade was when I moved to Dreamhost. It was also easy coz they have a One-Click install section where you get to choose different programs like WordPress, Joomla, phpBB and have it installed for you with just one click of a button. All I had to do was upload my custom files and restore my database using phpMyAdmin.

Second update: I installed a plugin called Edit Comment created by Andrew Sutherland. What it does is that it enables blog readers to edit their comments within a specified time limit. This is useful because there are times when readers want to change or add something to their comment or sometimes correct a misspelt word and couldn’t do it because they’ve already hit the submit button. I know how it is coz I’ve experienced it a lot of times myself while leaving comments on other blogs. I’ve configured the plugin to let readers edit their comments within 30 minutes. Please let me know if it doesn’t work or if you experience problems with this feature.

Third update: I’m slowly switching to Gmail. If I frequently visit your blogs, you might notice that I’m using a new email address. I now use one of my Gmail accounts as my primary email account for blogging and for personal use. One of the main reasons why I made the switch is because of the POP access which I couldn’t do with Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail without using a third-party program. With Gmail, I can download email on my desktop using Thunderbird or in my Pocket PC. I’ll still be using my Yahoo! accounts but only for backup purposes and other subscription details.

I was worried. I didn’t know exactly what was causing the problem. I immediately checked my webhost’s server status but everything was okay. It could be the newly installed plugin but I couldn’t go in and deactivate it coz as I mentioned earlier, I couldn’t log-in to my WP Dashboard.

I was able to log-in to my FTP and CPanel without any problems. Next thing I did was to do a backup of my WordPress database just in case.

I left a message in my webhost’s support forums and also sent a private message to the guy who was managing the servers, letting him know bout the problems I was experiencing.

In a few minutes time, I got a reply from him and saying that all issues have been resolved and everything should be back to normal. I was relieved! I was so happy coz I thought I lost my blog again and would have to reinstall everything and start from scratch.

I learned one important thing in this experience. Aside from having a backup of your files and database. If you encounter the same problem, if you try to login or access your blog’s url and the php files are being opened or downloaded by your browser, make sure that you make a backup of your wp-config.php file and delete the one from your web directory. You don’t want anybody to just download it and get all the important data in that file. Thanks to Kristin for pointing that out. She tried to help me figure out the problem but it was out of our hands. Turns out, the problem was with the Apache server and only my webhost admin could fix it.

In case you can’t access this blog, you can go to my WordPress.com account which is my temporary blog and where I post any problems I have with this blog.