FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GET BETTER HOSTING

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Post by legoboy » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:29 am

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Post by bicostp » Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:10 am

bacteria wrote:It probably only costs, what, $10 a month for the web site?
I think a dedicated server costs more than $10 a month. *looks it up on the host's website* Holy. crap. :shock:

At least it isn't as bad as a year ago. Back then we were still on a virtual host with another company, and occasionally when something people really liked came out, they'd chew up our bandwidth allotment and we'd be left high and dry for a month, or Ben would have to shell out the cost of the additional bandwidth. (Though it was probably cheaper.)

It also looks like the amount of traffic we're getting has skyrocketed since Nov. 27, that may have something to do with it:

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I bet it's a combination of G-force's NES controller getting on Hack a Day and the Pandora Battery mod tutorial...

This probably would have been lethal for the old shared hosting.

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Post by nightwheel » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:43 am

bicostp wrote:At least it isn't as bad as a year ago. Back then we were still on a virtual host with another company, and occasionally when something people really liked came out, they'd chew up our bandwidth allotment and we'd be left high and dry for a month, or Ben would have to shell out the cost of the additional bandwidth.
Rememeber when the First XBOX 360 Laptop came out. The site crashed because so many people were trying to get on the site. So they could see it and read about it.
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Who knows if the Namco Portable will ever become a reality? :P

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Post by bacteria » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:07 pm

Ahem, so it's my fault with my guides then!? :D :oops: When I was using PhotoBucket I was using (according to their site) about 6Gb of their bandwidth space in a month from access to my pics (you get about 25Gb a month on free, on one free account). This month so far, it is 1.3Gb (only the 5th of the month though...); and a number of my new pics are on a different uploader at the moment...
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Post by vb_master » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:26 pm

bicostp wrote:
bacteria wrote:It probably only costs, what, $10 a month for the web site?
I think a dedicated server costs more than $10 a month. *looks it up on the host's website* Holy. crap. :shock:
I have a dedicated box in Canada with 1 TB of monthly bandwidth for $30+ a month. The dedicated I have now for EFNet has a Celeron clocked at 2.40 GHz and 512 MB of RAM.

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Post by Kurt_ » Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:42 pm

Oy, that graph is upside-down! In the last little bit we've DROPPED 40,000 users or so!
Hey, sup?

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Post by ghosstt » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:07 pm

Wow.. still slow.. it took a while to just load these pages.. But, i can deal with it. If its only a couple bucks (or cents) i'll donate via a paypal account.


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Post by Kurt_ » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:09 pm

No you don't...

Nobody will know what it is. Not in the o....ow.... you know, that world that's not the basement?
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Post by vskid » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:11 pm

Kurt_ wrote:Oy, that graph is upside-down! In the last little bit we've DROPPED 40,000 users or so!
Thats the rank compared to all the other sites on the internets. Lower number=more popular.
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Post by ghosstt » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:21 pm

Kurt_ wrote:No you don't...

Nobody will know what it is. Not in the o....ow.... you know, that world that's not the basement?
i don't have a basement. :lol: Plus, then people will ask what it is, and ill tell em, and get more people into this hobby.

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Post by Kurt_ » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:22 pm

So #1 would be the most visited site on the internet?

What's #1?
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Post by Valium » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:26 pm

Kurt_ wrote:So #1 would be the most visited site on the internet?

What's #1?
Yahoo
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Post by vskid » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:34 pm

Valium wrote:
Kurt_ wrote:What's #1?
Yahoo
Poor Google is in 2nd, it deserves 1st, no one "yahoo's" stuff, they Google it.

The site didn't work at all for the last couple hours, its ok now.
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Post by Jongamer » Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:31 pm

Well a ton of people use yahoo for email, thats why they are #1

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Post by lifeisbetterwithketchup » Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:43 pm

Jongamer wrote:Well a ton of people use yahoo for email, thats why they are #1
I for one, use Google for my email. Gmail ftw.
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