Ugh, my web host just emailed me to tell me that there’s a problem with my reality tv site and they have pulled it offline completely without warning.
Here’s the email they sent me:
We are contacting you to inform you that we have had to throttle the connections to your site (realitytvfan.org) as it was causing the apache server you are on to run out of available connection slots. While we attempt to avoid disruption of customer services in this case it was causing problems for other users so we were forced to take action. If you can redesign your site to be less process-intensive (we only throttle sites when they are causing load in the server in addition to having many connections – if you just have static content for example that’s easy for the machine to serve up and we can just give you more connections) we’ll be happy to review the case for you. It is also possible that you have outgrown shared hosting and are ready for your own private server:
http://dreamhostps.com
If you are interested in that option please contact support with any questions you have any we’ll be happy to assist you.
I don’t even fully understand what they are telling me, or what they expect me to do especially as I can’t actually access my site to make any changes. I just checked my usage and I am using zero, yes ZERO percent of my bandwidth allowance. I find it hard to believe that a simple high traffic blog can be causing them much of a problem — and notice the plug they got in for their newly launched private server service? Hmm.
Hopefully they will help me work out a solution to this, and fast, otherwise it’ll be adios to Dreamhost from me and hello to a decent host who can handle a blog getting a few 1000 hits a day!
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