Cool Down That Fever

This is a public post addressed to one person. The person using the Fever RSS Client hosted at 173.193.63.131. Listen, I understand you have a lot of feeds to monitor/read and you’re trying to make sure you don’t miss out on anything important. Gotcha. I’m flattered, really.

But.

Your client is hitting my server every 15 minutes, and it is not checking to see if the feed had changed since the previous check. So the blog has to generate a new feed for you every 15 minutes. True, it’s not a strain on the server. True, it’s not like I’m completely overwhelmed with visitors. But if your client is knocking on my door every 15 minutes, think about what it is doing to the feeds it has marked as important.

Right now, since this is just a little podunk notepad (and likely will remain so), it’s not a burden. Because your client hits every 15 minutes, it does serve as a handy clock when I’m scanning server logs. (Google hits every hour. It’s like having a Westminster clock!)

But you might want to double check your settings. See if you can ratchet it back a bit, or if it can be set to check if the feed had changed since the last check. You could set it to check here once a day, and you still won’t miss much. Few of my writings are ever time dependent.

I do thank you for setting off my alarms, though. You’ve helped me recommit myself to writing. Even if it is all mostly dreaming while awake hallucinations and such.

Okay, that’s all. If you want to see how your client appears in the server logs, drop me a line and we’ll chat. I’ll bring coffee.