I think you’re going to be quite happy with the site performance now. MyBookLog.com has been moved to a new server and now the database errors are mostly a thing of the past! Whew!

I think I’ll name names.

We originally hosted this site at GoDaddy. They put your web site on one server and your database on another. I’m not sure what they put inbetween but it is not very reliable. Sometimes the database would be there, sometimes it wouldn’t.

So I went looking.

Earlier this week I moved MyBookLog.com to DreamHost. I didn’t realize it at first but they also put the database on a different server. I spent a solid day trying to get things set up and I’m not sure how reliable their database was because I couldn’t get that far. Repeatedly the whole site would just become unavailable for a long time…randomly. In frustration I gave up on them.

The next day I moved the site to HostGator. Much better! It’s been fast, the database has been reliable and I was able to get it up-and-running in a couple of short hours. Of course I had a lot of experience by then.

Hopefully you’ve noticed this improvement in the last few days. I know I’ve been enjoying the increased speed and the reliability.

With that problem solved I’ve been able to concentrate on some other improvements. I have created a “widget” that you can use to display what books you’re reading now on other sites. If you’ve got a WordPress blog like this one for instance, you can add a small JavaScript snippet to your sidebar.php template like I’ve done here.

You can get your MyBookLog Widget code in your settings.