Please Bear With Us…

by Steve Bowler on April 6, 2008 · 13 comments

in general

The site is getting slammed presently due to the Portal piece generating more traffic than my server has connections to serve. I’ve looked into upgrading the account, but it’s not a bandwidth thing, it’s a connections issue. Game-ism is pretty much suffering from a live unintentional DoS attack.

I doubt it’s going to improve much if it’s crippled on a Sunday night. I’m fearing the coming Monday and any upsurges of traffic that will bring…

/shudder

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{ 13 comments… read them below or add one }

surasshu April 6, 2008 at 10:44 pm

Sorry for co-DoS’ing your site. :)

Good read though, I’ll definitely add your blog to my RSS feed… roll… thing.

spitfire April 6, 2008 at 10:57 pm

No worries, I appreciate all the traffic I can get here !

Qwertyuiopasd April 7, 2008 at 3:22 am

you mean a GLa-DOS attack!

ahahah! ahahah! ahah-

*thud*

ErethAkbe April 7, 2008 at 5:36 am

You are GLaDOS’ psicoanalist… didn’t you expected this amount of traffic? ;)

Yesterday i recomended your site 9 times… XD

Dan April 7, 2008 at 5:38 am

You should tell as many people as possible to read you through your RSS feed, at least for the time being. That should relieve some of the pressure.

Brian April 7, 2008 at 11:28 am

It’s been stumbled, and it’s awesome. That’s why. xD

spitfire April 7, 2008 at 11:39 am

Yeah, I’ve seen the Digg link and the Stumble link (and all of the others which helped spread the word).

Much thanks everyone! I hope you’ll all stick around and read some of the other archives (there’s quite a few).

dt April 8, 2008 at 9:39 am

that’s what you get for making a good article!

Harveyjames April 9, 2008 at 1:29 pm

Hi! You’re probably sick of this by now, but I had a look at GlaDOS in a model editor. I didn’t have to reposition her or alter her in any way to get this pose.

Harveyjames April 9, 2008 at 1:29 pm
spitfire April 9, 2008 at 1:34 pm

DUDE. That is AMAZING.

If you don’t mind I’m going to update the article with that .jpg and link you.

It’ll just have to wait ’till later today.

Harveyjames April 9, 2008 at 3:23 pm

no problem! you can link me at harveyjames.livejournal.com .

I’ll ask the guys at TGQ if they don’t mind you linking their forum, where we’re discussing it at length.

your initial post really gave me food for thought! Seriously, good spot! I would never have seen glados as humanoid if you hadn’t pointed that out.

Harveyjames April 9, 2008 at 7:09 pm

Ok, I wrote up all my findings at harveyjames.livejournal.com. It’s the top post, so it should be easy to find and link to. Thankyou very much!

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