We’re back online!! Sorry for the down time!

At about 21:00 on Monday night all my websites suddenly stopped working. Over the past couple months, my web host, Dreamhost, have been sending me threatening e-mails warning me that they’ll shut down my service if I don’t cut down on my CPU utilization. Heavy traffic plus a resource-munching WordPress blog is tough on the machine. So I tried to work with my webhost to resolve this issue, I decreased the number of blog posts on the front page – I continued asking them for assistance (is it my calls to the database that are causing the issue or too much php or ??) and they gave zero support except “You’re using too much CPU units, fix it now.” And of course their e-mails took 48 hours to come each time because their support is awful. I told them that the Finnish Presidential elections were probably causing alot of the traffic and after they were done, my traffic would decrease. And the traffic did die down by about 20%, yet they told me my CPU utilization had doubled since election day – which I knew was a big fat lie. I asked them for some sort of proof of this, some screenshots or logs or something, they’ve ignored my request.

So finally they disabled my account and Monday I frantically search the net for a good dedicated server. Yesterday I had some trouble moving the MySQL databases, when I did an export I didn’t use the “compatibility=40″ switch, I assumed that the default settings were fine since I was going from a 4.x database to another 4.x database…but I guess not.

So anyways, we’re back up and running and I apologize for the delay. We’re now running on a dedicated Pentium IV 2.4GHz, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HD, 1 TB/month bandwidth…we shouldn’t have any problems for a while. Tip of the day: Never signup with Dreamhost, it’s a scam.