SP Happenings #43
Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 19:28 CET by Sorcerer

A site update was due before this issue of SP Happenings, but circumstances beyond my control unfortunately prevented it. I've been doing my best to discover what the issues that have been bringing the server down for the last days are, but have only managed to get near the root of the problem by now, with no practical (read cheap) solutions at hand. The fact is that the server SP and the hosted sites are running on is running out of the 512MB of available RAM. If I can't bring this memory usage down, the only solution will be to buy another 512MB of RAM, which will cost us another $30 and raise the monthly hosting expenses for another $20. So, as you can imagine, I'm doing my best to find some way to deal with this problem that won't require pouring more money into hosting than we already are. I'll have more news on this next week, but in the meanwhile, please be patient if SP goes down now and then... I'll either be conducting tests on the server, or the server might go down because of the lack of memory. Either way, I'll try to get it back up ASAP.

I should also have the site update ready soon, but how soon now totally depends on when I get the server back in order. This is obviously my top priority at the moment.