bieh

I tried this, the site seems much more responsive now. Thanks!

It's working again now. Although I had to lower the number of maxworkers to get it stable, so it may be slow.

And yeah, I'll be investigating why it's so slow tomorrow after the heat dies down. I think this is the first time that wordpress instance has served more than a few hits per day, so I'm kinda not surprised it's gone horribly wrong.

Mirror at http://bieh.net.nyud.net/2010/11/08/xkcd-576/

Should it go down again - there's a mirror at http://bieh.net.nyud.net/2010/11/08/xkcd-576/

Yes, I plan to support things other than buy-now. This was just the simplest way to get something running.

My plan is to have it wake up every hour, check if it's won something in the last 24h, and if not then do a search for items to bid on that are closing in the next hour.

I'll do a weekly/fortnightly "look at this photo and details of all the random stuff I have" post, and do the day to day stuff automatically on twitter.

Should be the best of both worlds.

Of course the server would choose to die /right now/. I've fixed it, the link should work again now :)

Heh, cool - I was going to submit this myself after it bought a few more items, but I guess I was beaten to it.

Any questions, or suggestions for smarter ways to select items to buy, feel free :)