If you can see this post, you’re seeing WestHost instead of Site5! One of their major features is the use of “RAID” for hard drive mirroring, so a single drive failure doesn’t leave my website down for a day … the fact that my personal PC has the same feature and in my opinion ANY hosting company should do the same, doesn’t appear to have occurred to Site5 😦
Anyway, let me know if anything is strange for you; but it should all be fine!
Sorry for no MINIsOnTop posts yet; when I got home my site was down – again! I emailed tech support and they said:
The IP to the site was blocked earlier in order to keep the server online:
66.246.254.189 (gbmini) -> 237 connections
237 connections is far over our 50 connection limit. I will remove the block but if the high resource usage continues, the block will be reinstated until the resource abuse stops
Well I’ve no idea what a “connection” is – someone looking at a web page? But I’m guessing with MINIsOnTop this weekend, and the recent Great Ice Cream Run, maybe more people than normal are checking out pictures … who knows, not me!
So I wrote back asking how to find where these “connections” come from and what I can do about them … they replied:
The connections were coming from many different IPs
So I can’t do anything about it, but if it happens they’ll kill my websites. Sweet, aren’t they! 😦
You can guess that my time with Site5 will be short now …
Well Site5 have been shite all this week, failing for a few hours Monday, longer Tuesday, and down from midday Thursday till just some time after midnight – in addition their restore (assuming it’s finished), partly broke my web site so some frantic hacking this morning before heading off for the airport …
I really hope it stays working for the next couple of weeks! Otherwise …
Heading out to the airport, more from Florida later today, when I’m re-united with GPMINI (thanks to Joshua!) for the start of The Great Ice Cream Run
M&I / GBMINI 