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By the time you got home, a lot of the day's stressors had passed the fight or flight stage. Your significant other's problem with a co-worker were several hours old and a little less dramatic. Your own bad experience with a customer wasn't nearly as fresh and instead of unleashing onto your significant other, you were able to reign it in and explain how frustrating the situation was without an elevated heartrate.
Those were the days.
# There's definitely something screwy going on with my host.
Performance seems to have nosedived with things such as processing "on this day" taking ages to complete. This impacts loading the home page as it is built on the fly (along with its RSS feed and the Daily feed).
I've moved these tasks to a separate page where possible to offload the work but I've also noticed that loading pages via the nightly cron jobs no longer seems to execute them properly and the feeds don't get updated.
Running the same pages manually via SSH works as it always did. I've tried both wget and curl with various parameters but nothing wants to function correctly. Looking back at the daily emails it started at the end of June.
I'm going to have to resort to contacting support but they are truly awful and I don't expect a positive result.
I haven't worked out the performance issues (I just don't see why a custom query and creating an rss file have suddenly become so taxing) but I have resolved the cron job problem. My other domain (colinwalker.me.uk) is parked with another host so I have recreated the cron jobs over there and everything appears to work as expected. The final test will be overnight with the daily emails.
I finally got round to fixing a glitch with the daily email that caused the first '#' link to be offset vertically from the post content. It wasn't always that way, the problem must have been introduced along with the other issues in early July. I already had the solution in the daily RSS feed so copied it over. I don't know why I lived with it for so long.