Site down due to Bandwidth ..

[Frustrated Father]

Hey folks,

Sorry about the Wyrd site being down for the day. We generally are on hand for any and all emergencies that might pop up but this was a long weekend for me and I was out of town and I didn't get a heads up about this till I rolled into the door this evening (a day early none-the-less, would have been real bad to have come home Sunday night as we planned).

Anyhow, everything was and is good, just we managed to eat through about 40gigs of bandwidth this month so far, which overall is a good thing as it shows interest and site traffic, and has been steadily on the rise over the last year, but with the showing of the new miniatures, it brought folks out of the woodwork and thus down went the site come Saturday morning.

Server folks are quick to take something down, but not put it back up, even when one carries a hefty credit with them. It's been handled obviously though.

Sorry for the site outage, we'll endeavor to make certain that doesn't happen again.

-
Nathan

[supervike]

YAY!



It all worked out in the end.

I'm just glad you got it back up before the IP deadline....tommorrow!

[Dragonforge]

Yeah and I got my Round 3 entry uploaded too.. so now thats over..

Vike did Rob get you his image to upload being he will be gone tomorrow?

jeff

[EldinTux]

Welcome back, (I need my fix, I need my fix)

[r2-j1]

I thought it was rather strange that things went down the tube while you were away. Glad to see you back with every thing cleared up. It was a long day, I must have checked to see if it was fixed 10 times.

[Wren]

Whew, glad to hear it wasn't a bad problem, but rather due to interest in the new minis!

[Sculpta the squig]

YAY!



It all worked out in the end.

I'm just glad you got it back up before the IP deadline....tommorrow!


I thought the deadline was today, is it tommorow?

Squig

[callumrice]

Glad its back.

[YoungWolf7]

I suspect the arcade has something to do with the traffic as well. ;)

[supervike]

Yeah and I got my Round 3 entry uploaded too.. so now thats over..

Vike did Rob get you his image to upload being he will be gone tomorrow?

jeff


Rob got it done by himself! The planned camp out didn't work so well, so he's back home now.


Deadline is def. Today at 6pm.

Get crackalackin!

[Frustrated Father]

Well, you buggers did it again.

Site was down for less than two hours this time, but ya'll managed to eat through the extra bandwidth that I bought onto the site in a little over a 30 hours. Yay ... I think.

Anyhow, obviously the site is back up. Got some phone calls this morning from folks telling me to get my ass out of bed and to make some door knocks on the server and we're back up. I've tossed on a goodly amount of bandwidth this time to get us through the last of this month and if ya'll eat through that I'm just going to upgrade the service on the site completely (this would be the fourth time that we would have had to done that in two years).

Regards,
Nathan

[EricJ]

I think what Nathan is saying, is that if you could be a little less interested in Wyrd...that'd be great :D

okok, just kidding! It's gotta be a good sign! :)

[Hinton]

It's (kinda) cool that the site is going through so much bandwidth as it does mean more traffic. It means that word is speading about Wyrd and people must like what they're seeing since they keep coming back.

(Still kinda sucks for you though as I imagine bandwidth isn't cheap)

[YoungWolf7]

I'd imagine the recent bandwidth drain was the IP rd 3 postings and commenting.

[stubbdog]

Yep, apologies. I know my IP rd 3 pic alone is probably responsible for half the outage. I will try my best to get better smaller pictures for the next round if I make it that far.

[Frustrated Father]

Ya'll managed to do it again. Chugged right through triple the amount of bandwidth we've been carrying in the last few months (mainly due to the ezine, etc).

Sorry about the site going down due to bandwidth being exceeded. Every time I figure I've got more than enough, ya'll manage to surprise me each time.