WHOA... That sucked!

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 05 May 2004 11:46:15 Post Subject: WHOA... That sucked!

An article was posted on slashdot.org and it overwhelmed the server yesterday... Shared hosting, so the account was dumped. Now, its back up on a bigger, 'virtual' dedicated server account and should be ready for bigger traffic.

Was a major pain getting a hold of the host, getting the transfer made, and now getting DNS pointed to the right place!

Sorry for the downtime... Hope thats over for a long time!

dadx2mj · Posted: Wed, 05 May 2004 12:13:49 Post Subject:

Well at least you got it back up and going....just dont let it happen again Grin

j/k ing

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

yippie, it was my turn to kill the server

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Wohoo! Now I can read while I'm at work! Was really bored yesterday LOL I actually had to do some work after the site went down. Totally ruined my day!

Glad it's back up, I know it can be a pain to get things reconfigured.

Dud3! · Posted: Wed, 05 May 2004 16:19:42 Post Subject:

http://prohosters.com/virtual_servers/customized.html

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 05 May 2004 16:25:49 Post Subject:

Are those annual prices or what?

the server is now:

Processor: (2) Xeon 2.6Ghz
RAM/Memory: 4 GB
Storage: (2) 80 GB (Raid 1)
(1) 80 GB (Backup)

25 GB Disk Space
195 GB Bandwidth

RedHat Linux 9.0

Dud3! · Posted: Wed, 05 May 2004 16:28:11 Post Subject:

Yeah, the price listed is by the year.

Dud3! · Posted: Wed, 05 May 2004 16:31:26 Post Subject:

A friend pointed me to this:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/slashdot/tshirts/62db/

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 05 May 2004 16:35:24 Post Subject:

@ the shirt! After things settle, and I have something I think may fly at /. I am going to try again with them and see if the new server is any tougher... Laughing