Every webmasters nightmare! (and dream too i suppose!)

[Jilo]

I launched a competition 2 1/2 hours ago on one of my sites. Pretty decent prizes given away by top uk celebrities.

Anyway, about 15 minutes ago, two of these celebrities tweeted the link to a combined total of 300k twitter followers.

So right now, there are 1,819 (and rising!) people that have tried/are trying to get onto my site.

It's great that I've got the publicity, and hopefully those users visiting will return again, but being on a shared server, it's overloaded it, and I'm trying to change services as quick as possible!

I don't want 503 errors all day long!

 

[tetrapak]

James, get a VPS at least if you are expecting big traffic on any of your sites. If you are half serious about it, you should upgrade. I mean you can get a proper VPS for $70 month, or you can lose your trust and traffic by saving $60 .. A chain reaction like this can produce you 10 times more a day than you saved on the hosting PER MONTH!

 

[Jilo]

I'm looking into it now as a quick fix, I just upgraded hosting, and it seems to be working fine

 

[NetworkMsia]

thats actually good news!

 

[Bionic]

Congrats! You're not a real man until you've crashed a server!

 

[Jilo]

Congrats! You're not a real man until you've crashed a server!

LOL:lol:

 

[stewie]

Congrats!!!

 

[PRED]

Congrats! You're not a real man until you've crashed a server!

LOL! :lol:

 

[Poker]

It's called a quality problem

 

[Keyboard Cowboy]

If you can't make the switch in time and there's a chance you'll get shut out by your provider, redirect it to an offer. Might as well cash in if you can't handle 1800 visits

 

[Jilo]

It may be available to good offers in 1-2 weeks (we're talking x,xxx btw)

 

[britishbulldog]

Whats the site called ?

 

[Jilo]

official twitters [dot] com