Technical Deficiency
I’ve been living here for about 6 months… Time to slap up a new coat of paint.
I’m not ready to move or embark on a exhaustive overhaul from the ground up, but I’m playing a bit with the aesthetic design.
(EDIT- UPDATED) At the very same time that I decided to start tweaking page design, falsepositivecomic.com began to crash intermittently. I contacted my webhost and their support informed me it was my fault for scripts demanding high CPU usage on their throttled servers.
A few hours later I learned that in fact falsepositivecomic.com’s webhost data center was under “attack” for the second time this week.
Pretty please, bear with me.
It has become a nightmare.
-Big Mike
(Got any recommendations for a great and stable webhosting service? I might be ready to pull up stakes…. if anyone is able to read this post.)
UPDATED: (4/13/12- mid-day)
In true Friday the 13th horror fashion, falsepositivecomic.com’s webhost has been under attack most of the week and as a result False Positive has been unavailable. I have been assured, for the 4th or 5th time, that the issue has been resolved and things should run smoothly from now on– I will be busy knocking on wood, crossing fingers, & making sacrifices to ancient gods.
-Big Mike
I was disappointed the site was down, but I’m glad to hear it’s back now! I need my False Positive fix, and I wish you luck on this Friday the Thirteenth on maintaining the site.
Thank you. As the track record shows, the site can use all the wishes of luck available.
Sorry to hear about your hosting trouble! I use dreamhost and have found them extremely helpful and reputable, but I doubt my site gets the traffic yours does. I can’t wait for the next page of Ill Repute! It’s my favorite so far.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Dreamhost. Unfortunately, False Positive already resides on a Dreamhost server.
Maybe I need to adjust my hosting budget.
Thanks for taking the time comment and offer help. Hope Ill Repute will continue to entertain.
I use 1and1 (www.1and1.com) for all my sites. They are inexpensive, full featured, and won’t have an issue with heavy traffic or heavy sites.
Oh! And the cheapest package 1and1 offers should be more than sufficient for you, I would think.
Thanks for the heads up. I will investigate.
I’ve used 1and1 in the past, and am currently using Dreamhost.
DH has been giving my site the same treatment as yours: throttling bandwidth on their “unlimited” account, and trying to say that the problems are my site’s fault, when it’s obvious they’re being slammed by Russian & Ukranian hackers…which they finally admitted what? Two or three email newsletters ago. *sigh*
My DH account costs about half what the 1and1 account used to run, but I’m seriously thinking on switching back at this point.
I don’t know if that helps, but it’s good for me (at least) to know I’m not the only webcomic on DH getting the run-around.
I dig the hell out of False Positive, by the way. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for taking the time to offer your insight and positive feedback about False Positive.
I ended up migrating the site from Dreamhost to WPEngine.com. It is much more expensive, but I was at my wit’s end after all the problems I was having with Dreamhost and the customer service at WpEngine is top-notch.
I host other sites with 1and1 & have found their customer service next to non-existent. Next time, I might try registering through WordPress.com.
I’ve always been a fan of MediaTemple, and they basically provide you with the ability to monitor your CPU use and accommodate for spikes in traffic without having downtime – basically they beef up your site during a spike and you pay a tiny bit extra for the period.