Geekywood » Site News http://www.geekywood.com All the latest news and reviews in the world of technology! Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:10:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Digg Effect – Apologies for Site Downtime http://www.geekywood.com/2008/09/the-digg-effect-apologies-for-site-downtime.html http://www.geekywood.com/2008/09/the-digg-effect-apologies-for-site-downtime.html#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:38:43 +0000 Oliver http://www.geekywood.com/?p=326 To all my loal reader (s) I would like to apologise for the recent downtime on this site, it seems Servage are not as Digg-Proof as I currently thought as I found a warning and a site suspended email in my inbox when I returned from work a couple of days ago.

Yes it seems I was hit by the Digg Effect -  Although in this case at the instigation of Slashdot.

It seems my Article on Google Chrome was quite popular.

In the matter of 10 minutes my site was hit by 30,000 unique visitors and suspended by servage, after that in the next hour my server reported a further ~700,000 unique hits.  Firstly let me say, this is the most popular response any of my articles has ever had, I was actually quite heartwarmed by the fact that from the first snippet of my post enogh people were interested to push this to the top of Slashdot.

So for that reason I would like to offer both my heartfelt thanks and apologies to everyone who read my article and to those who could not access it!

In the meantime, although my sever rental has just been renewed, I am going to begin looking for a more robust host who will see me through traffic surges!

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So unfortunately for all my loyal reader(s) there will not be any updates for the next three weeks, I attempted to get a couple of fill ins but they wanted paying, and you guys really do not make me enough money!

In the mean time, read my past posts, dig and stumble me, comment on what you love and comment on what you loathe!

Au Revoir!

]]> http://www.geekywood.com/2008/07/holiday.html/feed 0 Apologies for the Down Time http://www.geekywood.com/2008/05/apologies-for-the-down-time.html http://www.geekywood.com/2008/05/apologies-for-the-down-time.html#comments Sat, 03 May 2008 16:59:13 +0000 Oliver http://www.geekywood.com/?p=281 Servage (my Webhost) made a rare blunder today and reset my accounts PHP Safe mode settings on a couple of sites, this meant there was a period of downtime on this site! Apologies to anyone who may have tried to access the site during that time, but at least we are back up and running now :) Many Thanks Oli… ]]> Servage (my Webhost) made a rare blunder today and reset my accounts PHP Safe mode settings on a couple of sites, this meant there was a period of downtime on this site!

Apologies to anyone who may have tried to access the site during that time, but at least we are back up and running now :)

Many Thanks

Oli

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