May 20, 2004

Throw me a life preserver, quickly

Oh, man oh man, is the situation ever growin' more insane. I received an email earlier tonight:

From : bandwidth@tig.mu.nu
Sent : Thursday, May 20, 2004 6:46 PM
To : --me--@hotmail.com
Subject : The domain tig.mu.nu (tiger) is about to exceed bandwidth limit

The domain tig.mu.nu (tiger) has reached 80% of its bandwidth limit. Please contact the system admin as soon as possible.

I mean it ain't like I didn't mention that I thought such was gonna be a problem earlier today, right? I just am not sure what to do ... but I left word for Pixy on Munuviana. I had actually hoped the clamor over that video was quietin' down, much like the Instalanche gave out after a few days, but today has been the heaviest traffic day yet.

Whatever happens from this time forward is Pixy's call. I cannot stop all those people from visitin' and cannot change the fact that Google is listin' my blog in the top spot on almost every misspellin' of the name possible. I guess I should just be thankful I am not listed all that high for the right spellin' or my daily visitation numbers might be in the millions, like Wizbang's. All I know is that I really did not need any stress of any sort, right now. I have just about reached my stress point. I am about ready to pull my hair out, but, of course, I cannot find enough hair on my head to grip, what with so much of it missin' and the rest cut so short it would be hard to grab. I know, I have tried.

Not much real news on the navel front for today, however. I did have to flick a nasty piece of lint out of it earlier, but the extraction went well and the navel recovered without too much difficulty. It is the rest of me that needs rest, relaxation and recuperation. A good night's rest will do wonders. I just hope I can get a good night's rest, or will it be another night of tossin' and turnin'? Place your bets. End of report.

Posted by Tiger at May 20, 2004 11:50 PM
Comments

Tig:

It may be a bit like trying to lighten a battleship by emptying the ashtrays, but you could go into your MT control panel and tell it to only show your most recent 6 or 7 posts on the front page. That'll reduce the overhead of hits to the front page at least a bit.

More importantly, I've optimised the compression on your header graphic, cutting it down by over half to only 21kb instead of 50kb. That's a decent chunk of bandwidth saved on each hit to your main page. Pop me an email if you'd like me to forward it to you. (It's exactly the same image dimensions... you'd just swap it for the existing one.)

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark at May 21, 2004 01:17 AM

Thanks for the suggestions, Paul. I will have to mull them over in my geek/0&trade brain.

Posted by: Tiger at May 21, 2004 09:07 AM

I got the same email, so naturally I panicked and forwarded it to Pixy Misa. He didn't panic and fixed it.

Did you get a lot of hits trackbacked through Wizbang? That was the part that blew me away.

No good deed goes unpunished. I gotta remember that from now on.

Posted by: Debbye at May 21, 2004 04:54 PM

Actually, I did get a goodly number of people coming from my trackback to Wizbang! which surprised me, as he had all the links there. If you check my last post, you will see that the actual bandwidth use is droppin' off even though the visitation numbers are stayin' steady. I think that is likely due to the spiders reindexing the links to the index pages as they fell off of the front page. It has been a pure madhouse.

Thankfully, Pixy reprieved me, as well. Pixy is the greatest!

Posted by: Tiger at May 21, 2004 05:00 PM

Good luck with the bandwidth problem and watch out for that lint! It's dangerous for a healthy navel

:-P

Posted by: squishybear at May 22, 2004 09:30 AM