Downeaster Yachts.com - Topic: Website non responsive today

Scott Carle on Website non responsive today

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:13:59 -0500

I will most likely move the site to a pay for host in the next year or so and will probably do that then. I've been trying to keep it so that I don't need to hit everyone up for donations for as long as possible.

Scott

timbalfour on Website non responsive today

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:17:48 -0500

Scott - if there's a cost problem perhaps we could ask members for contributions ? When we had a Peterson 44, their site needed funding and members made voluntary contributions every now and then and it always worked out OK.

Tim DE32 'Pelli'

Scott Carle on Website non responsive today

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:43:06 -0500

So I just checked the website around 7pm and couldn't log in or get any response from the server. I was finally able to get in and found that it was being hit so fast that it was tying it up. Sadly the server doesn't have a huge amount of resources and I had to block a search engine spyder and restart apache to get stuff running again. I keep thinking about just hosting the website on a comercial server which will increase performance of the website significantly. More speed on the server and more bandwidth.. But right now it is not costing my anything to host and I have full root access to the server so can do various and sundry custom tweaks to everything if I want to.

Anyway it should be accessible to everyone again.

Scott