Some of you may have noticed that recently Clusterblog has been a little slow to load, or perhaps has displayed an error message when you try to log in and update.
This is partly because the blog has become a victim of its own success - you have been posting so many entries and uploading so many images that our current server has become critically low on free space. As part of ClusterWeb's upgrade, we are in the process of arranging to move to a higher-specification server, which should stop this happening.
Until then, we need your help to make sure the blogs do not tax the remaining server space. Please go through your blogs and remove any posts, images or documents that you no longer require.
The main issue is likely to be with images. Photographs uploaded directly from your digital camera without being cropped or resized are usually huge files (This also applies to scanned images). Please make sure you crop and resize all your images in future uploads, and if you are aware that you have uploaded images without re-sizing them in the past, please delete them from your Gallery, re-size them on your computer, and then re-upload them.
For more information and some step-by-step information on image re-sizing, read our team File Optimisation factsheet.
I appreciate that these tasks are time-consuming but it is vital to the continued operation of the blogs and the site as a whole that we practice good file management.
Thankyou for your help in this matter and I hope that you continue to enjoy using ClusterBlog. If you have any queries regarding this, contact me on 01622 221201 or e-mail communicationcfe@kent.gov.uk.