Problems connecting to site?

Posted by scott on Thursday, November 29, 2001 at 2:00 PM (EST)

In the past few days, a lot of people [myself included] have had significant problems connecting to the site, receiving an error message saying the server is full. I haven't heard from Aubin on this, but my best guess is that we've run out of bandwidth. What usually works best for me is just hitting "Reload" until it allows you to connect. Hopefully we can get all this straightened out soon, and you can all keep getting your news here. Stay tuned for any updates.

Hi, here's the deal. We used to get free hosting, and the site ran on it's own dedicated server. So it easily kept up with the load from people checking out the site. However, we lost the free hosting, and I had to move the site to a shared hosting company until I can scrape together enough money to pay to get the server up again. It ain't cheap, and I don't make any money from the site so I can't afford it right now. - Aubin

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Someone (November 29, 2001)

Yeah, I've been having having problems too. It will usually say that the "server has reached its capacity" or something similar to that. Reloading works sometimes. The problem particularily shows up on the message board (here) and other areas like reviews.

seek (November 29, 2001)

I'm assuming that is because those pages' scripting makes multiple connections to the database each page load©

Someone (November 29, 2001)

Great! Now say the exact same thing again but this time in English! haha!

seek (November 29, 2001)

Mein hodensack ist kleine und kassig©

seek (November 29, 2001)

The actual problem seems to be that too many users are connecting to the MySQL database, it reaches max connections© I'm assuming your host limits the amount of connections to MySQL, and such a cap can't be changed without administrator access to MySQL© Aubin - why don't you start with banner ads again, like I told you in that e-mail, I'd pay for ad space, I'm sure many other people would too© I know a cheap place to get dedicated Raq4's with 350gb monthly bandwidth for $100 bucks a month, it is what I'm looking to get for Mediaocre and my friend's network of web sites "pogmania"© And hey, how bout that account? :¤

Someone (November 29, 2001)

I think the banner ads are a good idea. Some people will bitch, but it's not like you have to run ads for Microsoft or Visa. I'm sure there are plenty of record labels that would pay for the promotion.

seek (November 30, 2001)

Such as Mediaocre Records - http://www©pogmania©com/mediaocre

pegasuce (November 29, 2001)

You could ask for money donations. I think people could afford to give you some money to help you to pay the bandwith. Usually people that have a computer are not poor.

CallingLondon (November 29, 2001)

yeah i think donations are a good idea, if the bandwith is too high, i'd say there's a lot of people visiting the site, which means if people gave a few bucks, you could raise a lot of money. i'd give up a few dollars to make the site beter.

seek (November 29, 2001)

good idea, but you'd figure that everyone would donate at once, hed get about a thousand, but what happens when that runs out? he can easily make 100 a month w/ ads, that would cover a good dedicated raq©

th3space (November 30, 2001)

well, they could always do banners and donations...banners could bring a steady, monthly cash flow, and they could set up a PayPal account so that readers could donate some money to help the cause (several sites I visit do this as a way to pay for their hosting)...as far as everyone donating at once, sure, that'll happen, but new visitors to the site in a few months might see the PayPal link and be all "I think I'll drop 10 bux their way" or something...immediate AND residual, which is always a good thing.

Someone (November 29, 2001)

yeah right like anyones gonna pay to read this shit. what are ya stupid?

CallingLondon (November 29, 2001)

you really gonna miss 3 whole dollars? i'd say it's worth that to keep this site up. i like this site. though the ads are a better idea.

Moldy (November 29, 2001)

mabey you could get some merch upand running, i know i talked to scott, and we both thought that tshirts would be cool, as well as stickers or something of that nature. And im sure you could do some advertising, if mr brett reads this site, im sure many labels would pay for an ad

CallingLondon (November 29, 2001)

t-shirts would be fucking awesome.

KirbyPuckett (November 29, 2001)

I'd much rather have a quality site with an add or two, than a quality site that I have trouble connecting to. So Aubin def. go for the ads. Just keep em down to punk things, and evertying will be fine. If anyone calls you a sellout for that, tell them to fuck off.

Someone (November 30, 2001)

man that would suck who wants ads? thats such a sellout thing to do!

seek (November 30, 2001)

you are kidding right? "selling out"© he isn't fucking changing anythig, you stupid fuck© he would simply be advertising, which is what 99©9% of ALL punk magazins, e-zines, and web sites do© Go thumb your asshole©

Someone (November 30, 2001)

hehe, I just thumbed *my* asshole, it was really wierd!

Someone (December 1, 2001)

banners are fine, BUT NO POP UPS!

Someone (December 1, 2001)

I'd pay for a Punknews.org shirt...make the t shirt design a contest or something...

jacobk (December 2, 2001)

yay for shirts and stickers.. maybe even a hood/poster? that would rock.