I use a shared hosting account provided by BlueHost, which allows me to keep costs down for running this site. The downside of this is, however, that there was a pretty major denial-of-service attack against the server where I host my site.

Fortunately, my site’s structure seems to have survived the attack, even though I was getting all kinds of errors for the past 4 days (which kept me from posting anything, unfortunately — I was only able to comment on posts).

The site also got flooded with comment spam, some of which was actually getting through the various safeguards I put in place to prevent it. I’ve now installed some new protection measures which will hopefully keep things from getting too spammy any time soon.

So if you noticed any weird site behaviour over the past few days, that would be the explanation. Thanks for you patience with the site problems, and thanks again for stopping by Vertigo Guy.

As another small reward to the people who decide to leave a comment here, I’ve decided to implement another WordPress plugin (Show Top Commentators) that shows the most comments left here by users.

If you have you’re own website, you’ll also get another nice link back to your own site from here as well. It’s just one additional reward for anyone who decides to leave a comment.

I’ll be working on some other new features for the site in the next little while, so look for more new features soon. Thanks again for reading Vertigo Guy and good health to everyone.

I’ve implemented ‘dofollow’ as a bit of a reward system for people who leave a comment here and have a website — if you you’re kind enough to leave a comment, you’ll get a real live link back to the site you leave in the URL field.

To accomplish this, I’ve used the WordPress Do Follow plugin, which basically removes the ‘no follow’ attribute that Google and other search engines use to determine what to index and what not to index (funny enough, I’ve noticed that Google seems to index links marked even with ‘nofollow’ however).

For more on the controversy of whether to follow or not to follow, I’d suggest starting with the plugin maker’s own argument as to why the whole ‘rel=nofollow’ thing isn’t going to work.

So anyway, to make a long story short, leave a comment here with a URL, and you’ll get a nice link back to your own site. Just my way of saying thanks for your comment.