Lost Video Island

[Noj]

Not trying to tell you how to run this place or anything, i don't know the first thing about how you guys go about it, but whats the situation with the server? Are all the problems, ie slow loading or being down most of the time, due to the company doing maintenance or is it just because the company's poor? Whats the odds on moving to somewhere new?

*waits for beatings*
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[Aislynn]

No need to fear beatings, Noj! The only one we're angry with is the server! But you know how it goes when you're dealing any sort of tech support -- they're not exactly in a hurry. But we (which usually means Warren ) are definitely in there trying to get this sorted out as quickly as possible. I have no doubt that he'll get it straightened out or he'll get us onto a new server. One way or the other, LVI will get back on its feet!

Thanks to everybody for your patience!

[Hobbes]

All you need to really know is... it's being handled. Unfortunately, simply switching servers may not be the answer.
But if you know any really good ones, post them here and we can check them out.
In the meantime, I'm trying to make our site as efficient as possible so it uses less resources and doesn't cause the server to crash . But I'm starting to think that there's only so much I can do before it becomes the server's fault .
So in short: we're the ones going over the limits, but it's the server that has stupidly-low limits . So perhaps a server change is in order.

I'm particularly looking for a server which specializes in SQL databases. Know any?

[SuperKC]

*doesn't know*

But I missed the site so much!

*huggles site*

I hope you find someplace. Cause this is crazy! If you keep going over your limits, is there really a way to stop that? I mean, as long as the site keeps growing, user-wise and all. What else can you do BUT switch servers?

*thinks real hard*

I got nothing!

[Hobbes]

See, that's the funniest part We're still far from the limit limits. We're just hitting one of the stupid little "we're wussy so we won't let you do this" limits .

But we're looking at other hosters a closer now. Finding a host with a limit a bit less pathetic than this would certainly be the easiest way to go about this problem . But then again it might not be enough either.

The suckiest thing is if we do switch now, we're throwing 6 months worth of hosting away, since we're paid for iPowerweb until November.

[Aislynn]

*shoots iPowerwhat'sit with a rocksalt shotgun*

Hey, they and their wussy limits have well and truly vexed me. And when I'm vexed, I pull out the rocksalt shotgun.

[SuperKC]

LMAO Ais, I love your rocksalt gun!

[Noj]

[Hobbes]

Looks promising! I sent them an email to find out some more.
(could you post a link to your forum, so I can get a sense of what kind of pressure you're putting on their server?)


Right now, we're taking a close look at Dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com/). Anyone hosted by them at all?

[Noj]

www.ford-force.com
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[Hobbes]

Oh, nice!
Flawless you say? How flawless LOL? (How many connections do they give you usually anyway?)

[Fan4Lost]

How much are you looking to spend Warren? Seriously, most hosting providers are going to charge you if you go over the limit or in the current case just cut you off. There are no hosts out there that I know of that offer a huge bandwidth for little money. Unfortunately, when you have a site that gets a lot of traffic you have to pay a lot to keep it running smoothly.

Perhaps, if you did database optimization. Sometimes that can reduce a lot of the load on the server. I don't know if you know what that is, but it can sometimes help.

As for servers, mine is pretty good but we're not as busy.

[Hobbes]

[Fan4Lost]

[Hobbes]