This site might go down
This site might go down I was resently informed by my ISP that this site is basically too popular and that I will have to start paying about $400 a month to keep it going. Obviously I can't afford that.

So, I'm going to attempt to run it at home. When I make the switch the site might be down for a couple of days (you might have noticed it was down the last 2 or 3 days, related reasons).

But, also, I may be moving soon. I quit my job recently and am looking for new work. When I make the move I'll be "off the air" until I get setup at the new place and get a net connection, that could easily be an entire month so.... keep your fingers crossed.

If you are curious although I probably don't actually get all that many hits as my site is pretty heavy (lots of pictures) I get about 20-25 gig of traffic a month (if you go around looking at accounts you'll see that most of them limit you to 10-15gig. My site is also heavily scripted, I should fix it so it's cached but I don't really have time but for example, my ISP has a limit for 50,000 CPU cycles a month. Whatever that means I'm at 400,000 (8 times over).

Comments:

cycles of life [ e ]

wow.. as I read, this whole feeling of "packing up and moving on in a silent night" came over. As in.. to you it's a whole new move in your life but no one else realizes it.

Melancholy

(*crosses fingers* good luck w/ the new move!)

posted by pkApril 6, 2003 at 22:43

Good luck and I hope you come back! [ e ]

I read your site almost daily (but this week I had business to attend to, so I went lax for seven days). I hope that your job hunt goes well and that the enw changes bring what you need to your life. Please dont' go away, though! Even if you go to a "free" site and just do commetnary - I appreciate your blog and would be remiss if it was no longer available.

 

Good luck! Ganbare-masu!

From Taiwan,

Django

posted by DjangoApril 7, 2003 at 10:48

Good luck [ e ]

 春か 日本では、春は、出会いと別れの季節だな。海外では、春(4月)はどうなんだろう?

 何か、感慨深いものがある、季節だなー

 

posted by anon_DoszilaApril 7, 2003 at 13:20

Ganbare! [ e ]

Come back on soon! haha
Are you planning to stick around in Japan?? (I sure hope so)

posted by anon_GameboyApril 7, 2003 at 23:53

the meaning of April [ e ]

アメリカでは4月の意味は特にない。学校は9月に始まり、会社を採用している季節はあまりないと思うけど、あれば6月かも、桜あまりないから特別のエベントがない。場所によって、5月一日は花の日という祭りがあるけど。

恋愛について、June Brideという表現がある。なんとなく、6月には結婚式が多いと思われているけど、実は本当かどうか分からない。後学校の制度によって違うけど、普通に夏休みは3ヶ月だ。6月中旬から9月初旬まで。それで暇沢山あるのでsummer loveという表現もある。その三月に長い旅行して、その間恋人を出来て、でも旅行が終わったら、その恋愛も終わり。それはsummer loveということ。

posted by greggmanApril 8, 2003 at 5:49

Best wishes in job, server, move! [ e ]

Seems to me you could get work as a web designer as well as a game developer.

posted by anon_Joe3DUserApril 10, 2003 at 1:33

I use valueweb which has a 50 permonth plan with 30GB Transfer more... [ e ]

First off I have to say I love your site.  My small business uses Value Web (www.valueweb.com) for our hosting needs.  We have had good luck with them and they recently won PC Magazines editors choice for best hosting service.  They have a plan called the commerce hosting plan that is 50 per month with a 40 setup that allows 30 gb monthly transfer 500MB disk space.  The next plan up is 75 per month and has 40 gb monthly and 750 MB storage.  Check it out.  I will say that part of the motivation for this advice is that I enjoy checking your site every morning and wouldn't want that complicated by the challenges of self hosting but anyways I hope the info is useful.

posted by anon_readerApril 10, 2003 at 16:41

affordablehost.com [ e ]

I've been satisfied with their service, but then again my bandwidth needs aren't anywhere near 20-25 gig!  Their $26/month plan offers 1GB of storage and 30GB of transfers/month.

posted by anon_anonymous_mgApril 11, 2003 at 23:27

ISP suggestion. [ e ]

I'm using www.lunarpages.com - 60 gigs (which I use all of) for like $22 a month! best deal on the net, cpanel front end with all the trimmings. 

You know an ISP is good when they have an open forum (www.lunarforums.com) and nobody is mad.

Only bad thing is if you want to go over the 60 gb transfer you get reamed and have to email to get it raised.

posted by anon_mrfunApril 12, 2003 at 10:04

Must be me... [ e ]

Whoops.  Must be me.  I check your site multiple times a day... cause I'm your stalker.  Sorry dude.

Seriously though.  Keep the site going even if you're not in Japan man.  I love your commentary, fun stuff!  Your site was the inspiration for my cheesy dump!

Good luck where ever you go!

-Harvey
www.japannewbie.com

posted by HarveyApril 12, 2003 at 16:23

ラグビーボール [ e ]

 

ラグビーボールは、転がってほしいと強く願う方に、転がるんだと、

いい言葉だなー 

posted by anon_DoszilaApril 16, 2003 at 13:00

Blame me too [ e ]

Another stalker here. Sorry to see you leaving...

posted by anon_PeterJune 15, 2003 at 6:57

New ISP [ e ]

I'm with a new ISP.  I don't like them as much as my old ISP but at least they aren't going to charge me $400 a month.

But, right after I switched a made a bunch of changes to bring my CPU usage down.  The biggest is probably caching the front page.  Unless something changes it's now cached.  There were a few more bookkeeping issues that use to happen ever time a page was served that are now cached since they generally don't change.

The most interesting thing to me between my new ISP and my old ISP.  My old ISP didn't ever tell me about any problems I was causing them or, they had their servers configured so it was not an issue for them.  When I switched ISPs my new ISP immediately shut me down because they said my site was spewing out warnings to their logs and crashing their server.  I was kind of startled because I've been running this site for years and my old ISP never said a thing plus I'd never seen any warnings from my old ISP or at home on my test setup.

But, that made me go figure out how to get those warnings to appear at home and so I was able to go through my scripts and get rid of pretty much all of them. (I hope).  Now with all the changes I wonder if I could have stayed at my old ISP

posted by greggmanJune 15, 2003 at 14:04

I also use lunarpages, it's great! [ e ]

Hi! I already love your site and plan to be a regular reader. I discovered it while doing an internet search for "Bob Sapp" after a 10-year old Japanese girl mentioned his name to me.

When it comes to hosting, I use two different hosts for different domains. My main site is hosted on lunarpages.com, which offers 20GB of bandwidth for $8 per month ($10 with add-on JSP support, which I need). Their service is AWESOME. I've never sent them an e-mail that wasn't answered in less than 10 minutes, any time of the day or night, and they also have a 800 number.

The other host I use is http://www.fuitadnet.com/. They're a little bit cheaper, and they offer higher bandwidth plans. Their plans range from $4.99/month for 25GB of bandwidth and 3GB of storage, to $34.99 for 175GB and 15GB of storage. I find their control panel much harder to use than lunarpages though.

Hope that helps you! Please don't shut the site down!

-Joshua Carmody

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