We will be moving his site to a known stable environment starting as soon as we actually can!!
The site will be live ( hopefully right up to that moment) but...
Ross has graciously offered to host the site..
Ok here is what happened now..
* Wolvenar sheepishly starts the explanation
(Feels like a tried and true FL moment here)
I work building web sites as one of the ways I make money.,
I just finished the final tweaks to a new web site/store I was hired to build..
I emailed the company I did this for this morning at 6am looking for their final approval to the last round of changes.
I also said "If this works for you, give me the details of the server site you have leased,, and it will go there to be let loose into the wild"
They gave me those details just 10 min ago.. and chewed *me* out because *they* are loosing money.
Remember this is on a small machine sitting here at my place ( same one as AP is right now)
Ok now I had been working on this all night, so after that email.. I went to bed, woke up at 2 something (PM) to no websites responding, and almost no internet, slower than dial up though its normally around 30mb both ways available for a pipe ....**normally**....
The system was nearly locked up because the log file for this new site filled the drive ( tens of GB)
I found out to my terror that the business had let loose the tv commercials for *their* new web site!!
As I sit there watching my little machine act like its about to burn to the ground, I wondered how the HELL did the get them on the air so fast!! The coverage is multiple venues in most major cities..
THIS SITES NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LIVE ONE MY DINKY LITTLE SYSTEM RUNNING ON R.E. IN THE STICKS!!
I dumped the log file and changes the relevant settings, setup a network share for that log on a BIG drive.. and all was well I thought.. and was rather proud that little thing was holding up quite well.. until end of work day and school in the US.. Which means at home internet time for everyone!!
That was when the storm unleashed.. It basically tuned out to be the same as a DDOS on my relatively little setup.
I had been calling them all afternoon telling them this was
crap and they needed to get me that new server YESTERDAY.
It took taking their site offline for them to return my calls!!
Though basically all that meant was not RETURNING it back online.. ( as if I could).
It will NOT be back until it is relocated. The DNS records have been changed for their site to try to clear up my connections.. but even with a 6 min timeout set on the DNS records
I am still seeing most of the connection being taken by connection attempts, along with my site transfer.
So.. sorry again, his really sucks, and looks bad ..
I just cannot catch a break here..
Not to mention my groggy stupidity , and trust that the other guys knew better..
Hopefully with the move to Ross's server we will see MUCH improved reliability..
But as my profile states,,, I am Mr. Murphey's most fun target.
Just hope he leave the site alone once its moved!