Whats up with all the “Server Busy” messages?
We get a lot of email asking why there are so many “Server Busy” messages lately. Here’s the scoop. Xenafan.com is hosted by Larp.com. I’m hosted there because I couldn’t afford to be hosted at any of the large hosting companies (old-timers will remember my problems with Simplenet). All of the professional shops wanted to charge me $200/month to host xenafan.com. I like the site, but I don’t have $200/month to host it. Jay, from Larp.com, was nice enough to provide me a home for xenafan.com. One thing we found rather quickly was that xenafan.com quickly sucked up all the available bandwidth on the site. We’re on a T-1, but there are a lot of sites on it, including the people who pay for the T-1, www.photobooks.com. I was taking up their bandwidth, which was a huge faux pass. It was looking like I’d have to take down the site when Jay found a “throttle’ module for the server. What it does is limit xenafan.com to 30% of the available bandwidth at any given time. That means when too many
