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I solved my problem. I needed to change the parameter “votes” to “thumbs”. I also found it worked better to show the results in a descending order. Here is the working URL:

http://uhurusoftware.com/category/contest/?gdsr_sort=thumbs&gdsr_order=des

Well, my hoster is my own company’s hosting service so I pretty much have to use it. 🙂

This hosting service is built this way for a good reason. You upload your app (an app you wrote, WordPress, whatever) to the service and then it distributes it automatically across multiple hosts for load balancing and fault tolerance. You never know exactly which VM or server might be running your app. The original image of your app is stored as a template which then get’s re-distributed to additional servers as needs require. The end result is that everything keeps reverting to that golden image template which you originally uploaded.

This normally isn’t a problem since the apps people deploy on our server are designed to use a remote database (MySQL, etc) or file services as needed which ensures that the real “data” is centralized and shared across all the different servers which might be running the app.

The upshot is that I do need to use this hosting service and would dearly like to figure out how to configure WordPress to store it’s dynamic content at a separate location. I have already figured out how to have all the images stored somewhere else, but I don’t know how to make sure new posts and other items are stored on a remote location too.