"Service Tempoarily Unavailable"

[Ralle]

After having so many people visiting the Hive the message "Service Tempoarily Unavailable" often occurs. This is because this website somehow overloads the server. I am trying to find a way to solve this problem. I am thinking about buying Dedicated Hosting but that costs 350 $ a month. Which I means I will have to put google ads on the site to get enough money to pay that bill.

If "Service Tempoarily Unavailable" happens. Just wait a minute and press "refresh".

Ralle

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Gogo google ads!

 

[Ralle]

I just doubt we can earn 350$ a month.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

On google ads? Ofcourse not, what about trying to get some real ads perhaps?

 

[Val-Gaav]

350$ month? gosh this sux

 

[brad.dude03]

Damned dedicated hosting is expensive.... you still intend on sticking with Siteground though right? But yeah, good luck getting $350 a month... if you can, by all means go for it, but hey i'm happy with the present site as it is fast and still rarely has problems.

 

[Xlightscreen]

how about just adding another server on not a dedicated but a more cheaper one just to handle the mass of users?

Edit: also some things that seem to lessen the server lag...tempory Disabling Sig's avatars, deleting alot those inactive users from wc3sear. maybe make it harder for people to get a account like make them have to do a e-mail varification. also the largest number of users online was 91 on campaigns so yea ether people hate them or something. I also seen alot of users that create accounts but just kinda idle in the forums 24/7. mmm I'm presumed you already purged the database of most the garbage stuff. You could also contact campagins about doing some banners for them if they like idk maybe take some those users off your hands or something like that.

I really rather not see yea have to pay such a high price becuase I know after awhile you would be like F this and not wan't to pay it then my hosted project would be hostless .

 

[Xarwin]

Gosh, the "Service Tempoarily Unavailable" is pretty anoying, but do u really need to pay that much, just for fixing it up?
Ain't there ways we can help, or ain't there alternatives? ..

 

[operator]

How much would it cost to buy your own server ?

 

[brad.dude03]

Servers are pretty expensive, around several thousand dollars and into the tens of thousands for the professional ones, however it might be cheaper then getting a dedicated server from a host...

 

[Xlightscreen]

you can make your own server for about 1,000$..... with about 400$ being the acutual server componet and the rest being the hardrives, and other compunets you wish to have. The problem is it runs your eletrical bill pretty high espicly if you keep it online 24/7.

 

[Ralle]

I was hoping for less problems if buying dedicated hosting. But I dunno. I have a computer that can be a dedicated server.. Our internet connection is only 2mbit though..

 

[VictorOfSweden]

As far as I know, setting up your own server is not too hard. At least not the hardware part, nor the server software configuration part. I say the hardest part is the bandwidth. Not if you're the only one using it, but for a "multi-user site" as big as the hive, I have to recommend some quality hosting. The dedicated server plan sounds great, but unfortunately rather expensive. In the end, I guess it's up to you to decide, Ralle.

 

[Samuraid]

$350 a month is really expensive for a standard unmanaged server. You can even get managed ones (with CPanel, RAID, managed FTP backup space, dual CPU, 2GB of RAM) for $250 a month or less.

If you plan on sticking with siteground for a dedicated server, please consider other options instead. Siteground themselves host on dedicated servers rented from www.ev1servers.net. You will pay higher fees going with siteground rather than getting a server from EV1servers directly. In fact, here's the exact dedicated server siteground offers, but it only costs $200 purchased directly from EV1:
http://www.ev1servers.net/Dedicated/Config.aspx?pid=752

You really ought to consider getting a high-bandwidth VPS instead of a full dedicated server.
Maybe one of these:
https://www.rapidvps.com/
http://www.rosehosting.com/virtserv-spec.html

 

[Kimbo]

ack, i had like..30mins of that white screen thign again..im sure alot of people got it too cuz barely anyone was on...

i..really hope you can get this fixed..cause to me it seems like its gettin worse...

 

[Bob27]

ack, i had like..30mins of that white screen thign again..im sure alot of people got it too cuz barely anyone was on...

i..really hope you can get this fixed..cause to me it seems like its gettin worse...

Well it seams to be that it is really bad during the day for me, and then it dosn't happen at all that much after around 6:00. So you just have to go on at a time that everyone else isn't trying to come on.