Comment troubles continue. I’ve turned on TypeKey authentication (you do have a TypeKey ID, don’t you?), adjusted some settings and republished the blog a few times. It’s a long process due to the fact that there are a lot of things going on in the background that most people wouldn’t give a second thought to. To start, there are RSS feeds for recent comments and all posts, with a few hidden feeds for Feedburner, Moreover and some secret tracking stuff I’m developing. After each post we ping 1/2 dozen servers, send out a slew of trackbacks, and as of this week I’m pulling search results from various search engines, del.icio.us bookmarks, ad servers and so on in the sidebars.
Then there’s our tagging system, which will augment Categories at some point in the future and make it easier to find the posts you want to read instead of scanning a long list of search results in the sidebar. It’s not totally public yet, but it’s coming.
Some of the blogs here at Corante are less resource intensive, but with 90+ bloggers, a couple gigs of HTML and RSS traffic each day and search engines spidering us every 10 seconds, it gets pretty hectic at the CPU level.
I’ve got some time to focus on the blog over the next few days and will work diligently to get comments back in order. Promise.
