Flukeit

During the last several weeks, I’ve been experiencing problems with Bradsblog. Sometimes, the site simply won’t resolve and the sands in the hourglass flow forever. Other times, I can get on but cannot access the back end to perform administrative functions. After a few back and forths with Dreamhost support, and realized that the problem lies in the Akismet anti comment spam plugin. In order to resolve these issues, I had to edit the Akismet.php file by removing the following code from it.

$n = mt_rand(1, 5);

if ( $n % 5 )

$wpdb->query(”OPTIMIZE TABLE $wpdb->comments”);

Dreamhost will continue to monitor this and see if this fixes the problem.