Hosting question

[HowlingWulf]

Originally Posted by frankthetank

Where are you hosting at?

I have a dedicated server at http://www.alphared.com/

[MMemmer]

Originally Posted by HowlingWulf

For the first time I'm hitting overrages, but I've been submitting a lot of movie galleries lately.

Well if this is sustained growth then you might certainly consider increasing your committed bandwidth to avoid overae fees but if it had been only the exception then I would have suggested waiting.

Congratz on the growth!

[Buncha]

Originally Posted by Mr Spock

Frank, I had a similar story last week. One of my galleries was listed on the Hun and I received an e-mail from my host, Dreamhost that an unusually large surge in ntraffic was causing their servers to crash.............It seems that they have 250 connections per machine to the net and my gallery was using them all. They applies a throttle limiting to 10 requests per sec..........Question is , is Dreamhost up to Hun listings...........

Hi Mr Spock. I posted this info a few days ago in another thread.

I use Dreamhost and back in September I had a pic gallery at The Hun that was getting huge traffic. I was notified by email that they throttled the site down to 100 connections per 10 sec. But there was so much traffic I couldn't even bring up a single page. I contacted support and told them they needed to remove the throttle. They immediately moved me to another server that had lighter loads. I haven't had a problem since then.

So if the server you're on can't handle the load, ask Dreamhost to move you to another server.