Website performance

Posted by BigKev On 2008/8/9 2:33:41

Well I finally managed to get an answer out of my hosting provider on why we are the mysterious "Server 500" errors. It comes down to concurrent connections. If there are a bunch of people on the website and they are all loading pages at the exact same moment, then this exceeds the number of concurrent connections at that one moment and you get the infamous "Server 500" error. They you try it again, and there are open connections available at that moment, and it works just fine.

So because my provider has a hard limit on the number of connections, then the website will probably make a move to a new provider in the next few weeks or so. Hopefully this move should be silent and except for a few down hours during the actual move, should not affect any of the content here on the website. Just trying to keep you all in the loop. I am trying to balance out the hosting costs with performance, and I think I have a provider in my crosshairs that will fit the bill nicely and keep the costs just about the same.

I guess this mean the website is for sure growing and we need to move to a provider with a little move legroom. So kudos to everyone for your continued support.

Just wanted to let you all know that I see the "500 Server" errors also, and I am working to elimnate them.

Thanks,