I don’t know if the problem was caused by upgrading to WordPress 2.1 or by UTW, but my mysql database went mental last night when I tried to edit a post. At first I got UTW tag errors, and then the whole site just died.
Ajay has been running a thread about UTW and WordPress 2.1 issues. I initially decided that until someone confirms that UTW is safe to run with WordPress 2.1 I was going to disable it. But then after checking my stats I decided I can live without UTW permanently.
Under 1% of my traffic comes from Technorati, who ‘rely’ on my UTW tags. Given that UTW is the main reason why my pages were loading slowly, and also now because of the potential incompatibility issues I’ve decided to disable UTW permanently.
I’d rather lose that 1% of traffic and give a better user experience to the other 99% of users, as well as reducing the risk that the site will go down again. In fact, I probably lost more traffic in the last 12 hours than Technorati sent to me all of last year!
