Fasten Yer Seatbelts...
Those of you visiting the main site or the forum last night were probably greeted with a message saying we didn’t exist.
Yeah, that freaked me out a bit too. Had Josh Olson finally finished his “Hacking For Dummies” book? No, the Artful Writer is apparently a victim of its own success. We’re getting more popular. Our unique visitors per day count continues to rise, and more significantly, the amount of activity on the site has increased.
Our hosting company serves this site and others from one of a large number of servers they own. Lately, the server we’re on has been getting sluggish. Sometimes the load increases to the point where it sort of gives up, and the site is inaccessible for a bit. Naturally, I contacted our Hosting Queen (the mysterious and possibly deadly woman known as Sekimori) and said, “Hey, mysterious and possibly deadly woman, why am I on such a sucky server?”
And she said, “Hey, idiot, YOU’RE the reason it’s sucky. Your traffic is crashing it. I need to move you to another server.”
Actually, she called me “whelp.” We have a very strange relationship.
Anyway, congratulations, everyone. It’s not a party until someone breaks something.
Seki tried to move us last night, but there was some trouble, so we’re still on the Sucky Server. You may continue to experience sluggishness, outages and weight gain, although that last one isn’t my fault. When she makes another attempt to move us to the new server (a brand new dual Xeon server ), the site will probably go down for a bit again.
Bear with us. We should have a zippier Artful Writer when this is all over.
Will not. That last was just a case of 3AM-goggles. You know, the ones that sometimes result in those embarrassing paternity suits…
yeah, i thought i’d been banned for a while there.
was impressed to see that you’re not being completely ripped off on server fees. i’ve seen many a lesser site paying way more because they didn’t know what they were doing.