php memory_limit

for weeks i’ve been going crazy cuz techfresh.net’s auto backup wouldn’t work.  the subdomains were fine, and all my other blogs would backup regularly, just not techfresh.net.

another problem was that techfresh.net’s archive page would never finish loading.  in other words it’s constantly cut off.

http://www.techfresh.net/archives/

and yet another problem, i couldn’t export techfresh.net’s database from phpmyadmin.  it would return a zero sized file.  so i’m left with mysqldump, which is a big hassle.

headache headache headache.

days of headache.

weeks of headache.

worrying.  that.  something.  bad.  would.  happen.  and.  i.  wouldn’t.  have.  backups.  oh God!!

then..  a little epiphany.

php memory_limit

*doh*

how stupid have i been?  techfresh.net’s database is like 45mb and the memory limit was 32mb.  doh doh doh!!

so i increased it to 64mb, restarted plesk and voila!

and the archives are showing fine now too! 

hope this little folly will find its way to help somebody else in the future.