Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Official First Post

Decided to create this blog because of current web problems and recent developments behind the scenes. Almost all updates, announcements, and news will still be posted only either at the main site or the forums, but be sure to check here if there is any down-time to see if we know what's going on.

From time to time, we might post about some non-"aaaaa where did the page go!?" stuff as well.

That said, I shall start out this post on the recent site failures that affected the main page, gallery, and forums. Basically what happened is that the MySQL databases disappeared (yes, they were actually not there, at all, in the backend) for a while before coming back on their own within 20-30 minutes.

I've contacted Hostgator's support to find out why this happens, and how to keep it from happening again, and the response is unhelpful. They say it might be happening because of too many connections, but we aren't exactly getting flooded with hits so it sounds unlikely.

Grr, it seems I would have to catch it happening again and immediately report it while the problem is still going on. In the mean time, we've been getting some traffic from spam sites so I'll just go block their ip addresses and see if that does anything.

We'll keep you guys updated if we ever find a solution.

Ann

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