Admin: Bw 3 Days 2 Outages And Moving Ahead

[HendryTan]

1. Over the passed 3 days, BlowingWind suffered 2 outages on our PAID Hosting Site.

These are on top of several smaller ones in the last few months. Almost all our readers are understanding about this and we thank everyone for your patience. But as Forum Admins we still have to say our apologies.

2. From our view:

a. Our readers who come to BW to Relax themselves but the Site Slowness and Unavailability, they may have left some unsatisfied expectations.

b. Secondly the Volunteer Admins had to interrupt our actual work and do investigations, trouble-shooting and then escalate issues to our hosting site.

c. Trouble shooting via mobile phones isn't a fun experience.

3. We investigated and diagnosed the problems originating from 3 main causes.

a. Our BW Reader-Base is Increasing and caused more demand on the servers. Happy-Problem.

b. Users are also chatting more which again increased demand on the servers. Happy-Problem too.

c. Our BW Hosting Site is getting "over-crowded" as their hosting-plans become very popular over the years. They have over-subscribed customers without proportionally increasing their infrastructure. Bad-Problem.

We don't foresee any of these problems going-away themselves if we do nothing and just keep apologising.

4. Yes our hosting site has charged us very Competitive rates over the pass few years.

But in view of (3), we guess it is time we have to seriously RE-Consider our options where competitive price cannot be our only evaluation criteria.

5. Bern, our new Admin has being working behind the scene to evaluate some new US hosting sites with the Latest Hardware. His initial result looks highly promising and he is doing more in-depth test. We will let him announce his baby when it is ready.

Note: Bern is also an unpaid volunteer so he can only work on weekends on BW.

If you know him, go give him a nice hug for burning his precious weekends.

6. The decision to Upgrade BW Hosting Site will definitely need $.

We did our sums and we think we still can cope economically.

BW will remain NON-Commercial and FREE !

Just that OralB (Moderator cum volunteer sales-co-ordinator) has to work harder and canvas for more advertisements. Currently we rotate 3 advertisements on our main advertising slot. We may increase that too. Readers who know advertisers whom may have interest, please refer them to OralB via PM. Only $200/month.

7. We hope we will have a final technical solution latest by Chinese New Year.

8. This post also serves to keep our community inform of our year end upgrade plans.

9. Thanks for reading BlowingWind !

Cheers !

On behalf of the Mods

Hendry Tan

Admin cum Moderator

[abang]

We, I am speaking on behalf of fellow forum users here, adore your effort.

We definitely appreciate your untiring effort to bring the best to us.

There is only a minor disruption and we all understand your team's difficulty in ensuring smooth running of this forum.

Once again, applause! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

[EasleyLim]

Overcrowding due to immigrants. Sounds familiar, heh.

[Netizen]

Felt the void when my attempts failed logging into the forum.

Kudos to the BW team!!

[Guest Sikodolauka]

Overcrowding due to immigrants. Sounds familiar, heh.

LOLOL :clap: :twisted:

[HendryTan]

Overcrowding due to immigrants. Sounds familiar, heh.

1. I guess you are referring to our LOCAL Telco-ISP who over subscribed consumers to their mobile 3G data network.

2. In BW, I am a Politics-Novice.

[Blacque]

Felt the void when my attempts failed logging into the forum.

Kudos to the BW team!!

Same!

[imchaser]

Overcrowding due to immigrants. Sounds familiar, heh.

The Banglas and the Chinas dont log in to BW. Its the migration of people from Trevvy if u ask me. Either one, its a good thing.

Edited December 18, 2012 by imchaser

[Guest 中国]

The Banglas and the Chinas dont log in to BW. Its the migration of people from Trevvy if u ask me. Either one, its a good thing.

谁说中国人没上吹风论坛网站？我是中国人！

[EasleyLim]

1. I guess you are referring to our LOCAL Telco-ISP who over subscribed consumers to their mobile 3G data network.

2. In BW, I am a Politics-Novice.

Not just the telcos, haha. But yes, the problems suffered by developed countries in general. Infrastructures unable to support the influx of immigrants, reactions to the influx, decline in standards of living etc. It just hit me how striking the smiliarities are between this and irl, so pardon me if I drew parallels to my socio/geo studies, heh.

[oralb]

alright guys, dont turn this into another me against them debate

As said, good job to both Hendry and Bern for the success migrating to the new server, I bet most didnt even realize the changed.

Should you or you know of anyone wishing to do an advertising in the forum, pls PM me. Help us make the forum FOC for everyone.