What's happened to Shamsports.com?

Dunkenstein · Post #1 » by **Dunkenstein** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:31 pm

When I try to open it, I get a message saying it's "unavailable". Sham, have the British authorities shut you down as a subversive? Or are the American internet police stopping me from receiving your pearls of wisdom?

Post #2 » by **Three34** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:36 pm

The site outgrew its hosting. Even though I was using about 0.3% of my bandwidth, I was getting too much simultaneous traffic at busy periods, and it caused it to shut down. I upgraded to a new server last night, and things worked again......briefly. But I woke up today to find that GoDaddy had managed to balls up the transwer, and that somehow, the site has broken at their end. I have been on the phone to them all ****ing afternoon, and yet they insist that they can do nothing to change the fact that it will take between 1-3 days to fix. They also don't seem to think that this shoddy service sufficiently contradicts their promise of 98% uptime, so even though they are not providing me with the service I have paid for, they refuse to give me a refund as well. They've said I can either wait it out, or I can cancel my account.

Aren't they just the best? It's almost like they want me to cancel.

The blog still works, but no one reads that anyway.

http://blog.shamsports.com

ohhla2000 · Post #3 » by **ohhla2000** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:42 pm

Sham, I've been reading your site almost daily for the past 2 years now. Do what you gotta do to improve the site - you're never going to lose me as a reader. I really admire the amount of work you put into it. Keep up the amazing work and hopefully all will be back to normal shortly.

Dunkenstein · Post #4 » by **Dunkenstein** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:24 am

Sham wrote:The blog still works, but no one reads that anyway.

http://blog.shamsports.com

I read it. Where else can I find out which former Division 3 player just got a Montenegrin passport so he can play on a B league team in Poland.

Post #5 » by **Three34** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:37 pm

Well, thanks.

We decided to take the plunge and invest in a dedicated server. This will probably mean adverts, but it should also mean no more of this inopportune week-long downtime shyte that is such a freaking hinderance. So that's nice.

Malinhion · Post #6 » by **Malinhion** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:16 am

I'm all for an upgrade in reliability.

Ads are an inevitable reality of internet life.

daddyfivestar · Post #7 » by **daddyfivestar** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:02 pm

Part of that Russian spy-next-door snafu?

mysticbb · Post #8 » by **mysticbb** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:16 pm

The site is working again! I like that.

Post #9 » by **Three34** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:07 pm

Kind of. It's only working at a weird temporary address: http://72.9.241.210 I'm trying to setup a load of redirects so all your bookmarks will work.