On Monday, February 5, 2001 I learned a valuable lesson that I think needs to be shared. It deals with hosting...
I was fortunate enough to get the #1 spot on al4a's dailt gallery listings with my newest project and was thrilled to death. Wouldn't you be?!? I mean, geez... people would sell their own mother to get that spot!
At any rate, traffic was flowing, there were a few sales and I was happier than I'd been in weeks; happier than I'd been in months, actually.
Then it happened. My site disappeared of the face of the Earth. The company hosting it pulled the plug. Why? Because their server(s) couldn't handle the strain.
Funny part is that I talked with them about the load they could handle before going ahead with this project and was told by their tech person that it would be fine. No problem. No sweat.
Hmmmm..... They claim that I was pulling 10 gigs per halk hour with that one page alone and that I was filling up 2 T1's with all the file requests for that one gallery page. Another thing is that the server logs for the site indicated a total of 191 Megs, NOT gigs of transfer for the month of February before everything puked.
I don't know about you, but something doesn't sound right. Oh, and their server locked up twice before they un-DNS'ed me. Something about it had duplicated itself 100+ times.
What's the moral of the story? Make sure your provider can handle a REAL load before making any big moves.
I have since moved to a REAL F'ing server that has experience in the field of REAL traffic management and am confident that everything is going to work out just fine.
To everyone who was affected by americas-best.com/adult being taken down temporarily, I apologize and hope that we can still be friends
, continue to move some traffic and keep making money together.
- Blakk Frogg
P.S. ---> I'm hungry. What's for lunch?
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