Ok, as many of you know, we have had some serious issues lately. We've experienced 10x the amount of reboots in the last 3 months than we did the 1st 5 years online. We have had two major(4+ hour) outages too. We only had one really bad one in the 1st 5 and it was my fault.
Things are changing though. The 1st step is that our servers are being moved out of my hometown to a collocated facility. This facility has a better infrastructure and that alone may help us a great deal.
Lately, I have appeared to be inactive, but that really has not been the case. I have just been ripping my hair out worrying about issues that I used to not have to worry about. I am not a server pro, so this is all new to me. I have gotten decent at trying to stamp out little fires set on the server by whatever it is out there doing stuff to us.
With this change, I think that some of the issues will clear on their own, but we'll see. If this move doesn't work, I will end up moving to a different hosting company altogether. I just can't sit back and do this. I need to be writing review, answering emails, etc...
Sorry for the slowness of the site, previous downtimes, etc... I hope to get this all resolved soon.
Ps. Do I have any Linux Pros out there that might be interested in doing some server work for me? If things don't work out with what I am working on now, I may need to move to an unmanaged host and have someone to help me with some things.
8 Responses for "Server Issues… We’re Trying Something Else!"
i’ll ask some of my friends and see what i can do for you Chris :) Will let you know as soon as i can get someone to help ya out.
I figured that is what was happening. It’s always something isn’t it Chris. I have a few friends that know some of that stuff. I will get them in touch with you.
well, unfortunately I don’t have any friends that’d know this kinda stuff, so I won’t be much of a help. Don’t worry though, just take your time and see if you can get it fixed up, we can survive with a little delay :D. I usualy just work on other things while pages load, going back and fourth and it works fine.
Hi Chris I’m not well conversed with the server stuff but I would recommend MJZhosting to you. It is a single man hosting company and he provides the best tech support to all his customers (including me). His servers are really good and you can migrate to his servers if the need arises. Just take some time to visit http://www.mjzhosting.net
Well, the site seems to be running considerably faster.. did you fix it?
yea soccerfreak24 is correct the site is running way faster for me. I was wondering why it was soooo slow on my computer but now its back to being fast. Thanks Chris for all that you do you really are great.
To be honest…for me…the site is working faster than it ever has…whatever you are doing is working..
Yeah it acutally is running faster than before somethings working i guess
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