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I'm getting the exact same "error", and if I enter a new one and click "Create", it doesn't show anything different (even the error message states the previous name), but if I click the link to add pictures, it just opens a new tab with the same page... I believe this is still an unfinished product. A little more info would be much appreciated.

I actually did that, I disabled the wp-cron function and switched to crontab. I am currently monitoring the server to see if this helps or if the issue is somewhere else.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Hello again and thanks for your responses, I have been analyzing the server performance and checked logs for when CPU peaks and I know now, as I previously stated, that the issue is when that particular plugin (Traffic Commando) runs.

I have been analyzing its code and it's not optimized at all (not that I was surprised when I found out), it seems to not have any kind of limitant on how many posts it creates on the wordpress site (it creates posts to the DB) and it hogs up all resources. I have convinced my friend/client that the best way is to avoid using that plugin for now until it is optimized (by me, obviously... sigh), and it seems like we will start using some kind of caching system as well as CDNs to leverage the toll the sites take with traffic (I'm not really worried about that).

All in all, I guess it'll come up as a total rewrite of the plugin he is using and implementing a caching system along with a CDN system for static files as suggested in your comments.

Thanks a lot again for all your help!

You're right. I thought of PR stuff primarily because that's the need that I have to cover for the project I am working on, but the idea can be implemented in any number of aplications, not just promotional stuff...

Yeah, I guess what I'm looking for is something more similar to this... Thanks!

I thought about using one of such services, but I think they're way too general(ist?) for me, what I want to do is basically have a way to either send a message, login to a panel and submit a message from there or schedule a message that will be distributed among several "subscribers" via different methods, like a newsletter system but using a method selected by the end-user (SMS, email, twitter, etc.)

But you might be right, I could probably do something similar on top of IFTTT, Zapier or Yahoo! Pipelines...

I'm a Systems Administrator, but have done development before, mostly fixing and patching stuff on the different projects I've worked on. Part of why I thought of doing this is because there is another project that I am working on that needs to implement something similar, but I thought that maybe I could do a service instead of a module in that project. The aim of that project is to deliver publicity (promotions, discount codes, etc.) to customers from different providers of their choice, this will be limited to a certain area, so basically it attacks a local need since we don't have a widespread service like that yet.

What happens if I register today (or any day before July 1st)? Will I get the new prices or the old ones?

What's this non-NSFW madness you talk about? Most of the beauty of Tumblr for many of us has been the lax of TOS enforcement from the people at Tumblr, this has rendered countless of blogs ranging from vanilla porn to the most gore-ish and deviated pictures I have seen in my life. I think I'll just sit back and watch how this develops, I am an avid Tumblr user and I would really hate it if they started to take away my much beloved NSFW blogs.

While I agree with the whole "Learning how to cook" analogy, I still belive that, when starting, you don't really need to learn all the server setup mumble jumble. It is true, you DO need to know how to navigate through directories and such if you'll be developing directly in the server, and you need to learn how to setup your tools (if they don't come up prepackaged in your VPS solution), but aside from that I don't see the use of learning all of that. On a side-note, this just gave me an idea for a series of posts in my blog ;D