SR was shut down for an hour today...

Post by **subsonic** » Apr Tue 17, 2007 10:31 am

Today, for an hour, the site was shut down. The hosting company said Subsonic Radio is using too much of their resources.

It seems to be a big part was the regeneration module on the left side. For now I have turned this off.

Sorry for the inconvenience, it might be like this for a little while. Better that then no site at all. We're looking into getting new hosting. So far I have ran this site for close to free. It appears the site now needs more money to run/expand. We are all trying to work this out for as little money as possible.

Thank you for your patience.

Post by **Dr. Ravenscroft** » Apr Tue 17, 2007 11:38 am

Thats cool, personally I don't meed the regeneration the way it is. I preferred the older one, it took up less space, now I have to wait for this one to load before I can click on anything. Just adds another 2 seconds to my day.

rocketman · Post by **rocketman** » Apr Tue 17, 2007 1:36 pm

Glad to know you're still here! I logged on earlier and was surprised to see the site was down. The regen thing was cool but definitely not that big a deal. Thanks for being here!

inkydog · Post by **inkydog** » Apr Tue 17, 2007 2:50 pm

Just an FYI, yesterday when the site was down, I was able to Google your cached site and still pick up the feed.

The regen thing is not really necessary, IMHO. Cool, but I'd rather have the site without it than not have the site.

yoyoflamingo · Post by **yoyoflamingo** » Apr Tue 17, 2007 5:22 pm

Anything you can do to keep the site up and running, is more than fine with me. It's the most visited site in my day!

Post by **rdeacon** » Apr Tue 17, 2007 6:19 pm

inkydog wrote:Just an FYI, yesterday when the site was down, I was able to Google your cached site and still pick up the feed.

Luckily the streams are independent of the current web host. This allowed the streams to remain functional.

Its a good sign of all good growing sites to have growing pains.

Rich

foldmama · Post by **foldmama** » Apr Wed 18, 2007 9:08 am

Sub - Is they any way we can make a cash donation to help keep the site up and running? I love this site and would be lost without it!

Post by **subsonic** » Apr Wed 18, 2007 10:05 am

foldmama wrote:Sub - Is they any way we can make a cash donation to help keep the site up and running? I love this site and would be lost without it!

It may come to that. I've never wanted to, but if that's what it takes to keep the site up...

foldmama · Post by **foldmama** » Apr Wed 18, 2007 1:46 pm

Well, you can count on me for a donation!

disneydreamer58 · Post by **disneydreamer58** » Apr Thu 19, 2007 8:32 am

I would be willing to donate as well. Just let us know what we can do to help keep SR alive and rockin'

csquare77 · Post by **csquare77** » Apr Thu 19, 2007 9:06 am

Are you guys going to be able to reinstate the regeneration mode? or are you going to make a new counter that just shows points?

Post by **subsonic** » Apr Thu 19, 2007 10:04 am

csquare77 wrote:Are you guys going to be able to reinstate the regeneration mode? or are you going to make a new counter that just shows points?

It's in hiatus. The goal is to get a dedicated server but this costs money. We're looking into leads right now. If everything pans out I won't need to spend the time recoding the regen into a smaller, less functional module.

broncoflyer8912 · Post by **broncoflyer8912** » Apr Fri 20, 2007 1:36 pm

Do you know that now that you have turned the regen mode off, when we request stuff we cant see what our remaining point total is, or am i the only one experiencing this problem?

DisBeamer · Post by **DisBeamer** » Apr Fri 20, 2007 7:55 pm

broncoflyer8912 wrote:Do you know that now that you have turned the regen mode off, when we request stuff we cant see what our remaining point total is, or am i the only one experiencing this problem?

I can't see mine either. I assumed it was part of the 'shut down' of the regen mode. I'm just judging my points by what's grayed out in requests now.

Post by **subsonic** » Apr Sat 21, 2007 11:22 am

Yes, I know, it sucks but I haven't had the time to recode this. It's either broken functionallity or no site at all.

Sorry for the inconvience.