26 July 2007
Too much power
Posted by Poppa under: Site News .
Having a few minor issues with our hosting company right now over the site. They’re claiming that yesterday my CPU utilization went too high and they moved the site from the server it was on, to a “spare” server. The thing is, the only thing that was done yesterday was that we imported about 500 new photos into the gallery (the Grand Canyon trip). And when that happens, the software analyzes each photo, resizes them, makes thumbnails of each one, and rotates them if the software thinks that it should be rotated. So it can take some power to run through 500 images, but it’s very breif. I explained the situation to them and they said ok fine, we checked and your utilization is lower now so we’ll move you back to your normal server. I’ve dealt with the same thing from this company before, for a different website I was running. Frustrating it is. And if they keep giving me crap about it I might just go find a different host. BTW - when they moved the site to the “spare” server some of the comments that people posted in the gallery got wiped out for some reason. They might come back when they move us back to the normal server, or they might not. I dunno. Either way, the site will stay up, it just might end up on a different host.