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Offline Katty

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Crash o rama....
« on: July 27, 2007, 02:39:52 PM »
Has anyone else noticed the site's been crashing a lot recently?  Like 3 to 4 times a day, minimum?
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Re: Crash o rama....
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2007, 02:55:07 PM »
Stupid popularity.
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Re: Crash o rama....
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2007, 03:06:45 PM »
shhhhhhhh....look what you done katty.  server's listening! ;D

is it the increased traffic?  maybe something more random?  there arent that many users on right now.

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Re: Crash o rama....
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2007, 03:16:06 PM »
Hey, it had already crashed twice this morning before I posted, so this is NOT my fault.   ;)
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Re: Crash o rama....
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2007, 03:22:07 PM »
The number of users logged onto the forum is pretty fractional compared to the number of users hitting the site (and all other sites I have on this account) as a whole.

I'm looking into options to upgrade the account.  It'll quadruple my (admittedly fairly modest at this point) monthly server costs, and will involve a 12-48 hour downtime for everything at some undefined point within a 2-week span.  I probably won't be willing to do that until October; August is a bad month for my sites to be down.
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Re: Crash o rama....
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2007, 06:14:56 AM »
The constant "Cannot find servers" are driving me absolutely nuts! Sometimes my most angry posts come from having spent ten minutes trying to get into the site.

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Re: Crash o rama....
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2007, 03:33:09 PM »
The constant "Cannot find servers" are driving me absolutely nuts! Sometimes my most angry posts come from having spent ten minutes trying to get into the site.

Then spend more time away from the computer.
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