RESOURCE LIMIT REACHED?????

.Mike · March 22, 2012, 06:58:51 PM

Quote from: aron on March 22, 2012, 05:38:08 PMAnyone here have a VPS account?

I do.

deadastronaut · March 22, 2012, 07:56:56 PM

ive had this today twice... and sometimes its really slow to load....

aron · March 22, 2012, 07:59:47 PM

Is the VPS account way more stable?

Jdansti · March 22, 2012, 10:18:26 PM

Just had it happen on my iPhone. The full message reads:

Resource Limit Is Reached
The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later.

I am by no means an expert on this, but based on a google search for this message, the provider has X clients per server and when a client's site is very active, the service curtails activity to avoid affectIng other clients. A good provider will move more active clients around to servers with fewer clients. An unscrupulous provider will try to get you to pay more for an upgraded service.

.Mike · March 23, 2012, 12:31:30 AM

Quote from: aron on March 22, 2012, 07:59:47 PM
Is the VPS account way more stable?

It depends. With a VPS, you have to buy a package that includes what you need. I imagine this site is like mine-- really CPU/disk intensive, but not a whole heck of a lot of bandwidth. Unfortunately, most hosts don't make it easy, and sell on generic ram/disk space/bandwidth, which really doesn't help forum owners.

If this site has been running on shared hosting, and has been running as well as it seems to have been, you've been lucky. I was lucky with my site for about 8 years, and had a host who supported my cause, and gave me way more resources than I paid for. He vanished into the night, and I've been on VPS ever since. 8x the price, and a similar increase in complexity.

I would simply ask your host which resource limit you have hit. If they are unable to tell you, it is time for a new host.

Mike

aron · March 23, 2012, 02:56:46 AM

The last host was very good - I stayed with them because quite simply, the guy running it was a genius. Now he is into farming (no kidding) and with the recent problems, I'm worried. I think I might want to try VPS.

amptramp · March 23, 2012, 10:35:51 AM

Ran into it again today. It doesn't do that much damage - I am on other sites, so I refresh the page and if that doesn't clear it, I go to other sites and come back. I wonder how many Commodore C-64's it would take to act as a server for this site?

.Mike · March 23, 2012, 03:27:23 PM

Quote from: aron on March 23, 2012, 02:56:46 AM
The last host was very good - I stayed with them because quite simply, the guy running it was a genius. Now he is into farming (no kidding) and with the recent problems, I'm worried. I think I might want to try VPS.

I sent you a PM about VPS.

When my last host went belly up, they took my data, and the data of 2,000+ customers with them. Luckily I had nightly, off-site backups, so I only lost about 8 hours of data. Still, it was a very unpleasant 48 hours.

Mike

aron · March 23, 2012, 04:44:19 PM

Thanks for the help. Yeah I took a look at the site. Not sure right now.

davent · March 25, 2012, 12:15:18 PM

Never had it before but has happened so far, twice today .

dave

pinkjimiphoton · March 25, 2012, 01:09:48 PM

i get it about one outta every 20 visits or so...usually, it's if i have several tabs open...then it just becomes unresponsive...can't even refresh the page.

if i close it, and re-visit, it will work fine then, tho

tubelectron · March 25, 2012, 01:39:08 PM

Quote from: deadastronaut on March 22, 2012, 07:56:56 PM
ive had this today twice... and sometimes its really slow to load....

Exactly the same for me - I suspected my web connection provider, as the usual culprit...

runmikeyrun · March 25, 2012, 03:48:16 PM

I've had it a few times. Funny how a forum going down can freak so many people out! haha. No offense obviously, as I've had minor heart attacks over forums going down

pinkjimiphoton · March 25, 2012, 04:56:39 PM

got it again. damn!

The Tone God · March 25, 2012, 05:16:33 PM

I hadn't got one until just now. Although since the switch I have noticed some slow downs. I hope we haven't killed another host. I might have to update the Godzilla image.

Andrew

Perrow · March 26, 2012, 03:13:04 AM

Seen it a few times now

Earthscum · March 26, 2012, 10:52:43 AM

I'm right along side Tammy. I hadn't seen one until yesterday. It locked me out for about half an hour, believe it or not. Got another this morning, but cleared on refresh.

Mike Burgundy · March 26, 2012, 12:08:12 PM

FWIW, I just ran into another one (I've seen it about 5 times before in the past weeks) at 18:04 local time (Netherlands), so about 5 min. ago. Forced reload does nothing, a short while later the board is back up but very, very slow now.

Paul Marossy · March 26, 2012, 12:16:48 PM

I just had this message again about 30 seconds ago.

Ben N · March 26, 2012, 12:23:09 PM

Had my first. I feel like smoking a cigarette.

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