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Chris
AdminEngineerMar-18-2012 9:29 PMSo, as you can see, we're finally back online. I'm sure many of you (including myself) nearly lost your lid with the new trailer coming out and all the new info that we unfortunately weren't first in line to deliver this weekend.
I figure this all deserves an explanation as so many of you have been great, loyal members for a long while now. So, here is the story:
At the time, this site was hosted on a shared hosting service - meaning we share servers with other accounts, sites, etc.. and we are given a limit of traffic we can receive. A rather high limit mind you and I never thought in my right mind we would ever exceed it.
I was wrong. At 8:04am Saturday morning I recieved an email from my hosting providers saying that my account (Prometheus-Movie.com) was soaking up 77% of the available CPU usage for my shared hosting server.. and was causing problems with other accounts and essentially overloaded our server. This happened after we were lucky enough to get that early scoop on the IMAX Prometheus trailer.
The sudden influx of members to the site caused us to go over out limits and thus my account for the site was put on hold until I could find a way to upgrade.
So, instead of being cheap and going with the next level up I decided to fork out a lot more money and got Prometheus-Movie.com hosted on its own private server with unlimited traffic, bandwidth, etc... and hundreds of GB of storage and memory.
The site is now on a much stronger server - not shared anymore and we should hopefully not experience anymore downtimes like the one we did this weekend.
I would like to formally apologize to all of our members and visitors as this was not an issue I saw coming. At the same time I'm glad to see the site was able to generate so much traffic, but it was not fair to you all who visit here everyday.
We dropped the ball on one of the most important nights of this site's life. We will bounce back, we will remain the #1 Prometheus fan site thanks to all of you, but I want to personally say I am sorry for the site being down.
A very special thank you to all of you who stuck with us and were patient and who got back online ASAP. We thank you, I thank you, for you continued support.
Thank you,
Chris (BugHunter)
Prometheus-Movie.com Administration
Predator: Badlands - coming November 7th, 2025
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Cypher
Co-AdminMemberOvomorphMar-18-2012 9:32 PMLuckily I was able to show someone the Imax trailer at the pub right before the outage. She was cute too, and loves the Alien movies :-P
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"Is it dead this time?" "I dunno, poke it with this stick and see."
ReeceMacoy
MemberOvomorphMar-18-2012 9:47 PMno need to apologize, im glad the site is up & running again, i had to get my information elesewhere the past 2 days lol but no worries. thanks for upgrading & getting this site moving again, cheers
alteredstate.
MemberOvomorphMar-18-2012 10:08 PMThanks BH for the explanation i would like to remind members that we can all help BH by making contributions to the site which i intend on doing so at the first Opportunity .
WhyDontTheyFreezeHim
MemberOvomorphMar-18-2012 10:24 PMNo worries. Glad its back up an running! Thanks!
RSAND
MemberOvomorphMar-19-2012 7:46 AMNo need to apologize at all. You guys do a great job running this beautiful site and free to members. Thanks!
RSAND
MemberOvomorphMar-19-2012 7:48 AMNo need to apologize at all. You guys do a great job running this beautiful site and free to members. Thanks!
Its.UHS
MemberOvomorphMar-19-2012 10:52 AMBug Hunter, its very noble of you to give all the explanation... But hey, no need to apologize... You guys are doing a great job. Thanks for all your efforts.
takka_takka_takka
MemberOvomorphMar-19-2012 11:15 AMI was afraid someone had gotten a little too close to the truth and Fox had its stormtroopers shut you down. ;)
But, seriously having too much site traffic is definitely a good problem to have and if you guys started floating a few ads I would totally be in favor of that to cover hosting costs.
Just glad you're back so I can stop slumming on other sites.
Chris
AdminEngineerMar-19-2012 2:48 PMGlad to have you all back. I've been on the phone with my hosting company all day working with them to further optimize the site and work out any bugs. All our efforts should take effect within 2-3 hours and you all should be able to experience the site in glorious high speed.
But thanks for the support everyone, I was losing my mind when the site overloaded right before the full length trailers hit the fan.
Thanks for understanding!
Predator: Badlands - coming November 7th, 2025
RSAND
MemberOvomorphMar-19-2012 3:33 PMNo need to apologize. You're the one doing all of the hard work and I'm sure everyone agrees with me when I say it's appreciated!
NCC 1701
Veteran MemberMemberOvomorphMar-19-2012 4:25 PMOnce again ..No need to apologize
Big thanks for all your hard work ,,,,,Right on
Rob
NCC 1701
Veteran MemberMemberOvomorphMar-19-2012 4:29 PMOh ya , i just wish i could buy you a LARGE pitcher of your choice and a couple of shots
EGR101
MemberOvomorphMar-19-2012 4:57 PM@Admin
You may be spammed. Can you trace an unusually large amount of incoming from a single region in a short period of time maybe?
klaatu
MemberOvomorphMar-19-2012 5:17 PMThe outage made me realise how ordinary a lot of the other sites are...(no offence intended to the other sites).
Good to see you bak up....I was thinking the same that takka suggested (Fox may have stepped in to conduct ....rumour control...these are the facts.
flacnvinyl
MemberOvomorphMar-19-2012 6:48 PMBrother I am thrilled to see everything back! One small suggestion to help with your bandwidth... Change the background! It is a massive image that takes a good bit to load, and every single person visiting the forum has to load it. If you converted it to a compressed jpg/png/tiff file (under 500kb) it would help out massively!
Seriously love this site. Sorry to hear your shared hosting died on you!
rocket to the moon
MemberOvomorphMar-20-2012 7:54 AMyou were wrong you were so wrong lol, seriously though no need for apologies just glad your back on line, i was missing the forum.
IrishAndroid1
MemberOvomorphMar-20-2012 8:09 AMSo glad you're back up and running. Apologies unnecessary!
IrishAndroid1
MemberOvomorphMar-20-2012 8:09 AMSo glad you're back up and running. Apologies unnecessary!
aintnozeno
MemberOvomorphMar-20-2012 11:29 AMI appreciate how hard you worked to get us back online. I've grown quite attached to this place.
I'm still having problems though, and typically have to refresh or back up 3-5 times each time I navigate pages. Is there some kind of re-direct in place?
Cervantes
MemberOvomorphMar-23-2012 5:49 AMJust had a chance to check back since the site went down before the recent trailers.
Talk about unfortunate timing for that!
While I waded through the various comments on other sites at the time, I missed seeing what the response would be here at the time. But lots of juicy new threads over the last few days for for me to catch up with now I see. :)
db
MemberOvomorphMar-23-2012 9:43 AMHey BH!
Apparently this weekend was a good time for my TN vacation cabin's wifi to go down too!
Sorry to hear about the problem, (but it's a great problem to have!)
I drove like a maniac to get back Tuesday night and watched the trailer before I even began unpacking! A big "Thanks" to you and your staff for all the hard work!
The site is better than ever!
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