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More on the server issues

Published June 5th, 2007 by Bobby Henderson

Things are still broken, I’m sorry. They’ll be fixed soon. Here’s what happened:

The Church of the FSM site lives on a dedicated server, hosted by one of the largest hosting companies in the US. We get a lot of traffic, and the site runs off database-driven dynamic publishing engine (nerds, read: wordpress/mysql). Whenever we are linked by a site like digg or reddit or boingboing, the server goes down. We were stable unless traffic was unusually high. We upgraded memory and tweaked the settings. That helped but didn’t fix the problems, the server still went down a couple times a month.

We reprovisioned the server, installed a newer OS, moved to a faster machine, but it’s not enough. We’re still bogged down.

So, we’re moving to a new hosting company that has built for us a very powerful server. We’re making the switch today or tomorrow and then things should be finally stable.

Thank you for bearing with me.
-bobby



99 Responses to “More on the server issues”

  1. Wench Nikkiee says:

    If you want your soul back, click my link (:))

  2. Jean Bart says:


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    Captain, why not post your version of the logo here:
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    http://www.london2012.com/joinin/create/index.php
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    They’re asking for it!

  3. ♥ Wench Beth ♥ says:

    To JB… cool, thanks for sneaking Wench Beth into your work!

  4. Rowdier Wench says:

    Enough with the chocolate everyone! :)))) I have a bikini to stay fitting into you know! Have a heart! :)))

  5. ♥ Wench Beth ♥ says:

    Yes, everyone please respect the Empress of Thong, exalted Head Soul, and “Oh yeah, try it bastard! Woman”. Thank you.

  6. ۞ says:

    Hey,
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    I’ve just found a new story about CoFSM on BBC News:


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6731045.stm

  7. ۞ says:

    Hey,
    .
    I’ve just found a new story about CoFSM on BBC News:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6731045.stm

  8. Mike Meier says:

    ^ If I click your link it takes me to some mind-something site. If I type in your link it takes me to BBC, but I can’t find a CoFSM article.

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