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Here is what is going on around here...
1) Hauntworld was clearly the #1 haunted house website on the web this year so much so that my servers kicked out over 40% of the incoming traffic on certain nights. There was NO WAY I could have expected our traffic would DOUBLE actually almost TRIPLE from last year to this year. I know I know I have had this problem year after year after year... last year all of September was ruined we fixed it for October with a bigger server. It worked fine!
This year comes and September was clipping the scales and then came October and well our server crashed over and over again... I tried to upgrade to a new server but it was taking way to long so what we had to do was shut off all of our sites buy HW yeah that means HHO as well.
We could have sent everyone tons more traffic but my servers could not hold up to the unreal amount of traffic ... it was just overloaded.
So this is the last time I say this but... it causes me way too much stress to worry about this every single Friday and Saturday in October when I should be focused on my haunts I'm actually working on getting HW back online and running late to my own haunts every weekend. This is my last attempt to do this and if it goes down again next October I will discontinue my haunt directory. The money isn't enough for me to lose sleep, stress out to the point I can't breath sometimes worriing about.
Really I would give up all the funds everything because after I pay for all the services, net fees, commissions, upgrades, graphics whatever I really don't make much if any money... or atleast not enough to sit around screaming at all these different people wondering why the servers won't work, blah, blah.
I am done with it...
I'm taking a real risk here but the Hauntworld server was upgraded to a MEGA server that can handle 6 TIMES the traffic as before, now I actually have FOUR HUGE servers working together, splitting data bases to different servers its just so complicated. This will cost me THOUSANDS we are talking TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars for a year...
I had to buy new programs, pay microsoft fees for upgraded sql server programs you name it...
Our site allows users more controls, more features, more everything and the customers LOVE IT... they love our site more than any other I get the emails from people. But it has to work all the time...
Hauntworld is right now being moved to this new server so things might stop working for an hour a day, whatever...
Some will say why not just upgrade to a server like this for the month... YOU CAN NOT DO THAT...its all year or nothing. To get what I needed one major server company bid the thing out at like $3,500.00 per month. I almost got sick and puked... I'm not paying that much but its very expensive.
So here it goes... I won't pay more than what I'm paying now for servers because I don't feel our customers (haunt owners) want to pay more than they pay now, so basically it would come out of my pocket to run this site plus all the added stress....
A zillion people email me asking me to change their info, update this or delete that...
I also get ZILLIONS of phone calls asking me for YOUR haunts hours, what time you open, if its better than last year... and I'm like I don't own that haunted house but they still call me, email me, whatever. Its a lot!
So if you see things go off... this is why!
This site should FLY LIKE a Humming bird once its on this new server screaming fast... what it will do in october that remains to be seen. All I know is I'm paying FIVE TIMES more than before to run this site so it better work, otherwise I'm done trying.
I can't afford to pay $40,000 per year no way!
So here it goes...
Sorry the forums was out but that is what caused it!
I'll let you know when Hauntworld is on the new server! Next year I would expect Hauntworld always working fast as bullets as the server is now the biggest most expensive one I can personally afford!
Larry
1) Hauntworld was clearly the #1 haunted house website on the web this year so much so that my servers kicked out over 40% of the incoming traffic on certain nights. There was NO WAY I could have expected our traffic would DOUBLE actually almost TRIPLE from last year to this year. I know I know I have had this problem year after year after year... last year all of September was ruined we fixed it for October with a bigger server. It worked fine!
This year comes and September was clipping the scales and then came October and well our server crashed over and over again... I tried to upgrade to a new server but it was taking way to long so what we had to do was shut off all of our sites buy HW yeah that means HHO as well.
We could have sent everyone tons more traffic but my servers could not hold up to the unreal amount of traffic ... it was just overloaded.
So this is the last time I say this but... it causes me way too much stress to worry about this every single Friday and Saturday in October when I should be focused on my haunts I'm actually working on getting HW back online and running late to my own haunts every weekend. This is my last attempt to do this and if it goes down again next October I will discontinue my haunt directory. The money isn't enough for me to lose sleep, stress out to the point I can't breath sometimes worriing about.
Really I would give up all the funds everything because after I pay for all the services, net fees, commissions, upgrades, graphics whatever I really don't make much if any money... or atleast not enough to sit around screaming at all these different people wondering why the servers won't work, blah, blah.
I am done with it...
I'm taking a real risk here but the Hauntworld server was upgraded to a MEGA server that can handle 6 TIMES the traffic as before, now I actually have FOUR HUGE servers working together, splitting data bases to different servers its just so complicated. This will cost me THOUSANDS we are talking TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars for a year...
I had to buy new programs, pay microsoft fees for upgraded sql server programs you name it...
Our site allows users more controls, more features, more everything and the customers LOVE IT... they love our site more than any other I get the emails from people. But it has to work all the time...
Hauntworld is right now being moved to this new server so things might stop working for an hour a day, whatever...
Some will say why not just upgrade to a server like this for the month... YOU CAN NOT DO THAT...its all year or nothing. To get what I needed one major server company bid the thing out at like $3,500.00 per month. I almost got sick and puked... I'm not paying that much but its very expensive.
So here it goes... I won't pay more than what I'm paying now for servers because I don't feel our customers (haunt owners) want to pay more than they pay now, so basically it would come out of my pocket to run this site plus all the added stress....
A zillion people email me asking me to change their info, update this or delete that...
I also get ZILLIONS of phone calls asking me for YOUR haunts hours, what time you open, if its better than last year... and I'm like I don't own that haunted house but they still call me, email me, whatever. Its a lot!
So if you see things go off... this is why!
This site should FLY LIKE a Humming bird once its on this new server screaming fast... what it will do in october that remains to be seen. All I know is I'm paying FIVE TIMES more than before to run this site so it better work, otherwise I'm done trying.
I can't afford to pay $40,000 per year no way!
So here it goes...
Sorry the forums was out but that is what caused it!
I'll let you know when Hauntworld is on the new server! Next year I would expect Hauntworld always working fast as bullets as the server is now the biggest most expensive one I can personally afford!
Larry
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