Black Diamond for everything climbing and skiing.    Dynafit -- Speed Up!    Tracker beacons, Stash packs, shovels, more more more.    Terrific deals on randonnee AT rando backcountry skiing gear.    K2 has the skis that stay true to earning your turns.    Garmont boots -- excellent choice for backcountry skiing.

At Camp 3, Setting Up The Tents, Cooking Soon

Bookmark and Share            By Lou

PM Update:
We’re pretty much done with our improvement push, including setting up with our new hosting at MediaTemple.com. Bummer was a few hours ago they already had a server outage of about 8 minutes. That’s somewhat a gut punch, as the whole idea behind this expensive and time consuming server change is to make WildSnow reliably available on Mondays, our biggest day.

Sigh, if necessary we’ll switch again as I’ve got little patience with the bozos who set up these hosting companies and act like they’re the solution to all your problems (when half the time the much vaunted company is probably a couple computers run by three guys in a basement who are searching for their lost pocket protectors because it just went dark when they tried to plug in an Xbox and blew a fuse — hence they can’t answer the phone when you call about your website not working.)

To figure it out I’ve set up a server monitoring service that tests WildSnow every 5 minutes. For fun, if any of you are interested click here for a public report monitored from New York.

Morning Post:
New host/server is working well, but we’re taking time to tweak some backend stuff that’ll make WildSnow better. Using up this morning’s blog time for that, but trust me, it’ll be worth it as the site will run better and be more accessible.

Posted by Lou on July 14, 2008 | Filed Under Backcountry Skiing 

previous post: WildSnow Climbs to Camp 3
next post: History from 1987 — Salewa Tour Binding Joins our Online Collection

Comments

4 Responses to “At Camp 3, Setting Up The Tents, Cooking Soon”

  1. Clyde July 14th, 2008 10:01 am

    Please get rid of the obnoxious message at the top of your RSS feed. Or if you insist on leaving it up, provide the entire post with photos to RSS like all the other blogs. The way it is now, you are discouraging readership.

  2. Rogier July 14th, 2008 10:09 am

    I agree completely with Clyde

  3. Lou July 14th, 2008 10:37 am

    Guys, apologies for that. I’m getting my feed stolen and used for content, have to do that statement in the interim while I figure out some other stuff to defend with. That’s why I just changed to a summary, with the obnoxious statement.

    This is so typical, criminals out there make me do something that messes with good people’s needs such as you guys.

    Come to think of it, if I’m publishing a summary feed, I can probably take the “stolen” message off or move it to the bottom of the feed where my plugin originally put it.

    Part of this project is to upgrade WordPress for various reasons. When I do, most of my plugins will probably stop working anyway. So one thing at a time here. Though I’ll get that message off now that I’m using summary.

    Thanks to both of you for your feedback.

  4. Lou July 14th, 2008 10:56 am

    Theft defense text now moved to end of feed, you won’t even see it in the feed till we go to full feed again instead of summary. Even then, if I can implement some better feed scraper defense, I’ll get rid of it entirely.

    The statement seems to have discouraged much of the scraping, as it’s done by robots and they’re difficult to keep re-coding to strip things out of individual feeds. Please have understanding about what’s going on here. We get a lot of traffic thanks to folks like you guys and have a good Google pagerank, which is great but makes the website content thieves look at us like a mosquito viewing a person sun bathing without bug repellent. At times we’re getting attacked in in a big way by comment spammers and content scrapers. Defense actually takes a significant amount of time out of my week.

Got something to say?





Anti-Spam Quiz:

:alien: :angel: :angry: :blink: :blush: :cheerful: :cool: :cwy: :devil: :dizzy: :ermm: :face: :getlost: :biggrin: :happy: :heart: :kissing: :lol: :ninja: :pinch: :pouty: :sad: :shocked: :sick: :sideways: :silly: :sleeping: :smile: :tongue: :unsure: :w00t: :wassat: :whistle: :wink: :wub:

Due to comment spam we moderate most comments. Please do not submit your comment twice -- it will appear shortly after we approve it. Once you've had one comment published, your comments will be pre-approved and appear immediately if you're using the same computer and not blocking browser cookies. NOTE however that ALL comments with one or more links in the text will be held for moderation no matter what, again for spam prevention.
Welcome to Louis (Lou) Dawson's backcountry skiing information and opinion website. Lou's passion for the past forty years has been alpinism, climbing, mountaineering and skiing -- along with all manner of outdoor recreation. He has authored numerous books and articles about backcountry skiing and is well known as the first person to ski down all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks, otherwise known as the Fourteeners! Books and free back country information here, and tons of Randonnee rando telemark info.

All material on this website is copyrighted. Permission required for reproduction, electronic or otherwise. That includes publication and display on other websites by whatever means. PLEASE SEE OUR COPYRIGHT INFORMATION.

Backcountry skiing is a dangerous sport. You may be killed or severely injured if you do any form of randone, randonnee and randonnée skiing. The information on this website is intended only as general information. While the authors and editors of the information on this website make every effort to present useful information, due to human error the information, text and images contained within this website may be inaccurate, false, or out-of-date. By using, reading or viewing the information provided on this website, you agree to absolve the owners of Wild Snow as well as content contributors of any liability for injuries or losses incurred while using such information. Furthermore, you agree to use any of this website's information, maps, photos, or binding mounting instructions or templates at your own risk, and waive Wild Snow its owners and contributors of any liability for use of said items for backcountry skiing or any other use.