OMG Explosion

March 24, 2010 | 12:55 am, by Pascalle Lepas

YOU GUYS BROKE THE WEBSITE. GREAT JOB.

So, the long and short if it is we used up too much server resource on our other host and they suspended the account because we kept crashing the server.  I was very miffed because they never sent any warnings saying that we were causing problems, so it was kind of not in my schedule to deal with this today.

If you can see this then you’re seeing the site on the new host. Moved everything over to a new host and here’s hoping this one doesn’t kick us out either. *crosses fingers*

I used to think being too popular for a box was like this glamours amazing thing. I would read webcomic creators tell of the woes of the crashing server and it all sounded so big and important. Turns out it’s not. It’s awful and frustrating.

So, here’s hoping!



Comments

  • RSS feed linked me to “http://gator867.hostgator.com/~lepas/2010/03/omg-explosion/” .

    I can't get the home page from here. It links me to “http://gator867.hostgator.com/” , which gives a 404 error.

  • I'll check it once the site fully propagates, but this is most likely a DNS
    switch error and should resolve once the switch is complete.

    (I can't even see the site on the new host yet. I'm replying to this message
    via email)

  • Looks like its still showing hostgator's url…

  • thanks. had to let the site fully propagate (pinged the server this morning) before switching the wp info. should be all hunky dorey now… mostly i hope…

  • p.s. you should have gotten your new WP login info. If not, let me know and I'll send it to you.

  • Lukas

    But we thank you for givin us our regular dose of Zap, regardless of the setbacks. Thanks for the comic. If you could manage a x10 comic post that would be super! :P Thanks again.

  • we weren’t on hostgater at the time of all the awfulness. we’re on them now. so far so good but we’ll have to see how things go on monday when the traffic spikes.

  • TekServer

    Conga Rats on getting back up and running so quickly! I've seen similar problems bench other comics for a week or more, so your 2-day recovery is pretty impressive to me …

    :)

  • I actually had the site up on a new host the same evening as the account
    suspension, but since DNS rollouts are so gradual I bet people in a lot of
    places are only getting to see the new site today. (Hello people!)

    Regardless, we're back and hopefully for good this time! :)

  • the_pale_lady

    UGH the second I read your post I knew you were hosting with hostgator…..

  • CM

    If you need a new host soon, I might be able to host you on my server space.. I get 9.84 TB per month of bandwidth (which grows 40 g a week) .. and use less the a G myself.

  • Foxtrack

    Qne web comic I have been reading for a long while, that being Jack, a furry comic, the owner of the site it is hosted on, he told me how he would get offers of this and that much bandwidth and how they boasted that it was more than enough, and then he would tell them that that much bandwidth would be used up in a few minutes or a couple of hours a day.

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