1. You click a link to upgrade – WordPress 2.7.1 is available! Please update now

2. You see the instruction for upgrading –

3. And it installs in no delay -

Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7.1.zip

Unpacking the core update

Verifying the unpacked files

Installing the latest version

Upgrading database

WordPress upgraded successfully

The term Software is evolving.

Not sure if I am going to drive more spam by posting this stuff but wanted to make other Wordpress bloggers aware about the type of spam messages I have been receiving recently. I was overwhelmed to receive comments more than expected ever on this blog in a single day. Though it was really a good feeling but I thought of better informing others about the reason behind this over-flowing happiness. These messages look relevant to any kind of post and hence one may get feeling as if they are posted by a real human.

Following are the spam messages which I received recently (every message for multiple posts) and was marked spam instantly -

Generally I do not post on blogs, but I would like to say that this post really forced me to do so! really nice post.

The main idea of it is understandable, but I still think their are some changes that would be required for it to work.

Very enthusiastic and motivational. I find this post very good, and I will definately reference it for future readings aswell. I will also digg this, for the convenience of having other people finding a useful article on businesses of your kind.

I’ve generally read over this article, and I find some of the things you’ve displayed very hard to recognise. Please elaborate on that more, and then contact me back at http://directorysubmissionservice.in/. I’m hoping to subscribe, and find something to read – but I just can’t seem to like things that aren’t very detailed.

Wordpress.com has increased storage limit for its users. Its free user space limit has increased from 50 MB to 3 GB (60x increase). Matt has written a post on Wordpress.com official blog while comparing themselves to their nearest competitor – Typepad as they charge at least $300 a year for 1GB of space (little self-promotion isn’t bad when you are doing such good work!).

He is looking forward toward reforming Blogging world the way Gmail did for Emails -

Our hope is that much in the same way Gmail transformed the way people think about email, we’ll give people the freedom to blog rich media without having to worry about how many kilobytes are left in their upload space.

And if you are interested in uploading music and movies, you may think of going for upgrade which now provide 5GB of additional space.

Don’t you think that you should be told about the reason of suspension of your blog instead of just a small note when you loss your dear blog hosted over other’s web-server, specially when it is biggie like Wordpress.com.

This blog was suspended with just as much small note as it can be making the author loose all the stuff which was collected over long period of time in…perhaps lots of of MBs.

Here is what the note went like -

This blog has been archived or suspended for a violation of our Terms of Service.

The blog was hosted over wordpress.com. It wasn’t the only incident but just sometime back, same blogger had talked about the suspension of other wordpress.com blog in similar way and they quote -

Blogs are suspended if they are found to be in breach of the TOS.

We do not contact you first to ask that content be modified or removed.

You cannot have that blog name back.

You cannot have the blog content back.

Really BIG LOSS. I would suggest to keep backup of your blog over some other place and better than that, host your blogs on your own servers or very trusted ones, if you are really really serious about your stuff collected over period of time involving great deal of hard-work.

In this case, I think, some warning should be sent to the blogger in advance before the blog is suspended. And then it should be checked if the warning has been taken on positive note. Only then, blog should be suspended on the basis of observation. It was really bad to see a wordpress.com blog getting suspended like this with no prior notice…huh.

I have been getting following errors related to Wordpress database for my blog in recent days -

   1: WordPress database error: [Can’t open file: ‘wp_comments.MYI’. (errno: 145)]

   2:  

   3: WordPress database error: [User 'xyz' has exceeded the 'max_questions' resource (current value: 50000)] SELECT * FROM wp_users WHERE user_login = 'admin'

This problem occurs when one of your tables get corrupted which can happen because of any reason – can be the one you never expected like mishandling of packets while insertion to tables, sudden disconnection to database, erroneous  spam comments or posting error from your desktop blog editor.

In order to fix it, all you need to do is to go to your MYSQL database (prompt or phpMyAdmin), run the REPAIR TABLE command -

repair table wp_comments
repair table wp_users

That is it.

Thanks Anirudh for instant intimation.