I apologize to those of you who’d experienced any difficulties with commenting, posting in the forums, or just using the site in general over the past few days. The site had been hiccuping recently, throwing back dreaded 500 Internal Server Errors and out of memory errors from time to time.
After a few days of minor frustration, capped off by some mild panic, the support manager at my hosting company replied to one of my tickets, suggesting I reboot my VPS if I hadn’t done so already. Well… wouldn’t you know… one reboot later and all is well. 🙂 I was quite happy about this because the lower level support was requesting I contact sales to upgrade my already beefy memory limits. HuntsmansLodge.com resides on a managed VPS to the tune of $70.95/month. I didn’t plan for this sort of overhead, but such is the price of being popular I suppose. 😉
Anyway, the site is back running on all cylinders again and I’m slightly less of a server admin noob, so that’s good stuff. I’m still not certain what the problem was, but it began just after I performed a script update on the forum. The upgrade process must have exhausted a lot of resources, then for some reason the server was stuck at that taxed memory usage level for a few days. It was like being featured on WoW.com, but without the glory of being featured on WoW.com. 🙁 The site was operating as if it were consistently near its resource limits.
So that’s it… just wanted to let you know all is well once again. 🙂
We’re out of the woods.
I’ve looked around though and I’ve yet to see anything less – especially not for a managed one. If you know of a reliable solution that will provide me with as much, or more resources for less money, I’m game. My current plan has 1GB guaranteed and 2GB burst available.
Let me know. 🙂
I really don’t mean to stick my nose into your business, especially if it’s not needed, but … I think you may be getting screwed on that hosting. I can understand paying for the convenience of a fully managed server environment, but $70.95 is an awful lot.