I’ve been fighting various problems for three weeks or so with this website.
As a bit of a State of the Site kind of post… I wanted to let you folks know what’s been going on.
First of all a few weeks ago, the server that housed Zombie Roomie crashed. No data was lost, but the hosting company had to move the files to a new server.
The first issue I encountered was that this new server had newer software powering it than the previous server had. This meant I had errors popping up when I would try to upload a comic. This happened around the 22nd of November… luckily, Phil Hofer or Frumph as he is known understood the problem and did a quick coding job of ComicPress so if folks are on a server like I was, it wouldn’t have errors showing up and screwing up your comics.
I continued to have problems with the server though. This time I was noticing far too frequent downtimes.
I once again contacted my tech support guys. They moved me to a grid hosting solution, which means instead of one server… Zombie Roomie is actually hosted on seven different servers. This is good news, since if one server goes down there are still six redundant servers that people can come to the site and see what George is up to.
The problem was I was still having lots of issues after the move to grid. The most namely was “Error establishing database connection.” when I would try to visit the site or a 404 error when I would try and log into the admin section to add comics and the like.
This was no good.
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