Posted on 29/06/10 at 37:13

Sorry for the downtime!

Right, time for an apology.

I’d like to start off by saying sorry for the website being down for so long. On June 13th ConsoleCuties was getting spammed and went from the usual 200-350 hits a day up to almost 4000 and was using almost 40% of the serves CPU and so the account was suspended. Not having time to look into it, I simply removed the website so all my other websites I run could be brought back online. Due to me being busy though I have only just got round to sorting it out.

Hopefully the spam attacks will now have stopped and I have enabled some caching to try to reduce the load on the server. Fingers crossed that will be enough to sort it out but on the off chance you come back here and the website is down again, you know why.

I will be getting back into the swing of posting again in the next few days now my workload has dropped slightly (and I’m in the mood to blog about some sexy women). for now though, here is a lovely picture from e3 to keep you happy.

Sorry again for the trouble!

Update:

I have looked into this further and seems I got 3,300 hits in a couple hours on the day in question from Stumbleupon. So that means they were all real visits so that’s a mix of good and bad news I guess. Maybe if it get’s to anything like those hits again I may have to invest in dedicated hosting!

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