Hey, folks. As most of you know, “Alas” briefly went down a couple of days ago, when we exceeded the 35 gigabyte bandwidth limit for the month. I bought three extra GBs, which I thought would do the trick, but it took them a day to process the order, and in the meanwhile “Alas” was offline for a while.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the same thing is probably about to happen again – it turns out 3 extra GBs probably wasn’t enough. Our bandwidth for June is currently 37880.14 Megabytes, and when it hits 38,000 “Alas” will presumably be shut off again. I contacted the host hours ago, asking to buy more GBs for June, but they haven’t gotten back to me yet. By the time they do bother getting back to me, “Alas” will probably have been turned off. Again.<\/p>\n
Color me annoyed.<\/p>\n
Most likely, Alas is about to go down, and it won’t reappear until Friday morning (the start of July). Sorry about that. I’m taking steps to make sure that this doesn’t happen again.<\/p>\n
By the way, MAJOR THANK YOUs<\/em><\/strong> to everyone who has used the “give us money” link on the sidebar to contribute money to “Alas.” There has already been enough contributed to let me pay the WordPress expert who’ll be moving the huge “Alas” database. And if contributions keep coming in it’ll also pay for the site’s bandwidth for the forseeable future. You folks rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey, folks. As most of you know, “Alas” briefly went down a couple of days ago, when we exceeded the 35 gigabyte bandwidth limit for the month. I bought three extra GBs, which I thought would do the trick, but … Continue reading