In case you were having issues accessing the website earlier, it was shut down for a couple of hours by my hosting company. Apparently the site has grown so large, that they shut it down because it taking up so much server bandwidth.
I was able to put in a temporary fix, but I will need to find a new, larger host in order to fix the issue in the long term and to make sure that doesn’t happen again. I will be taking care of this as quickly as I can.
I guess that’s a unique problem: your website is too popular. Yesterday was the site’s all time record high for both visitors and pageviews. Thank you guys. ^.^
-SapphireFoxx
UPDATE: The host transfer is now in process and the site will be moved in the next 1 to 3 days. There won’t be any downtime, but until the move the site will continue to be very slow. The current host can’t keep up with the traffic, but the bigger host will make things MUCH faster. Thanks for your patience =)
well… a bigger host ,meant costlier website
ever consider amazon? that’s what the guys at Mojang (creator of Minecraft) are using,though it’s not really so much of a premium server and reliable one.
p.s. : that and other one ,creeper host , is so far the only server hosters that i kn from playing Minecraft . But Creeper host i think is a Minecraft only hoster… 😛
First few weeks and its so popular you have to move it.
Even though the site is back up, the server can now barely keep up with the traffic and is super slow now. I’ll have to switch ASAP.
Now, I have just picked all my things and waiting for SapphireFoxx 3.0 to come soon. ^^
There will not be much of a change to the site, essentially it is just going to be moved to a bigger home.
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That does seem like a decent idea, but I don’t like the thought of relying on some service that could go down and all my content would be unavailable. I’ve already gotten a much bigger server, so I’ll keep everything here for now. If traffic grows beyond what my new server can handle, then I’ll look into some cloud service like that.
I did install the WordPress plugin, W3 cache. I’m not sure how much better than is making things, but I’ve heard that will really help.