TLC is back up!

[heidi]

Crossposted from Leaky itself.

Most of you probably noticed that we were completely shut down this morning; this is by no means a negative reflection on our wonderful site hosts, Mantissa.net, who do all they do for us for free - because they too are HP and TLC fans - and always provide attentive assistance when we need it.

No, it just meant we went more than 230 GB over our monthly allowance of bandwidth. We are looking into storage solutions for our higher-res files, and optimizing everything (you'll notice the java/animated elements on this page have been flattened for now), and will keep you updated on the goings-on in that area.

It also means we're probably going to have to take down the shot-by-shot until we can mirror it on some other sites, so we don't overload the server again. We'll let you know.

If we do go down again, we have a backup LiveJournal (right here at leaky_inc), which we encourage you to bookmark and/or friend.

We'd also like to thank Jeff from HPANA for helping us out getting the word out about our down time.

Comments

[mortari.livejournal.com]

Have you thought about using BitTorrent (http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/) for large files? It lets you share files peer-to-peer, and so won't use up your bandwidth. It's sort of like Kazaa for individual files.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Have you checked the site stats? Is there any chance that your images are getting hotlinked, maybe from high traffic boards and so on? Do you have a hotlink guard on the site?

[vlamidala.livejournal.com]

Gotta agree with bonibaru about blocking hotlinks - when RowM.com blew its bandwidth it was entirely because a couple busy sites hotlinked thumbnails. Hotlink blocking is really easy to do with an .htaccess file - it might even be an option in Mantissa's control panel.

Lemme know if you wind up not needing my school webspace.

Anyway, yay that TLC's back already! :)

[neytaritook.livejournal.com]

Oy, I was a bit scared when I logged on and there was nothing there! TLC is my first stop for HP news (and the second stop on my daily Net routine).

Can I join the TLC livejournal community?