On Wednesday and Thursday visits to Odd-Fish took a major upturn. Instead of my usual 8 to 10 thousand daily page views I got 31000 for Wednesday and 37000 for Thursday all thanks to Stumbleupon users liking the ‘Strife & Nightlife‘ comic.
Delightful though it was it caused some headaches.
My image host, Servage, decided that I was using too many resources and pulled the plug on me without warning.
I had to desperately move everything to different hosting as quickly as possible. Of course all this happened during an upturn in traffic so lots of people got to see a comic site with no damn comic.
I specifically chose the host I was using because of their huge bandwidth allowance- 5000gb a month but it wasn’t because of bandwidth they killed me. Oh no, I’ve only used 83gb at the time of writing this. No, they pulled the site because I was getting too many hits at once, or to put it another way, my site was too busy and it slowed their server.
If a simple comic site can do that I hope no one they host ever tries to run a business on their server! a few too many customers shopping at Christmas and bang goes their site.
What the hell is the point of having five terabytes of bandwidth if the server can’t cope with user load to match!
What REALLY got me angry was even when the traffic rush was over and I’d moved some files elsewhere to lighten the load they point-blank refused to unsuspend my account until the 12 hour punishment period expired. What sort of crappy customer service is that? Way to piss off your customers guys!
Anyway sod them. I’m closing the account and going to a host that doesn’t power their servers with Sinclair Spectrums.
Rant over. Smiling now.