Thread "Holy Site Outages, Batman!" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 10:05AM, May. 22, 2006

Our host did a server migration last week and weâ€™ve had nothing but problems ever since. I know theyâ€™re â€œworking on itâ€, but I couldnâ€™t update our site thismorning because of this, which Iâ€™m none-too happy about.
My big concern is that our site was just recently picking up some major steam and I really hope this doesnâ€™t dissuade anyone from coming back and reading our comics. Has anyone else had to deal with this sort of thing?

I will note that other than this one hiccup, our host site has been awesome and great to work with, so Iâ€™m not naming names because I donâ€™t want to seem like Iâ€™m pissed at them in general terms.

Posted at 11:05AM, May. 22, 2006

Has anyone else had to deal with this sort of thing?

You aren't THAT new to DD… Are you? :wink:

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Posted at 11:05AM, May. 22, 2006

lol
true true.

Posted at 9:05AM, May. 23, 2006

Drunkduck? More like Downduck!

Posted at 10:05AM, May. 23, 2006

hahahahahahashaddddup. :?

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Posted at 11:05AM, May. 23, 2006

I'll slap you around like you were married to white trash!

Posted at 4:05PM, May. 24, 2006

yeah, yeah. And I'll gut you like a taun-ton and use you for shelter from the cold.

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Posted at 6:05PM, May. 24, 2006

What? We've had hiccups? I never noticed. Site hasn't been down for me at all.

Posted at 7:05PM, May. 24, 2006

What? We've had hiccups? I never noticed. Site hasn't been down for me at all.

Naw. I was talking about the BIG crash of 2005.

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Posted at 11:05PM, May. 24, 2006

yeah, yeah. And I'll gut you like a taun-ton and use you for shelter from the cold.

Good one, SpANG! You're funny! :lol:

Posted at 11:05AM, May. 25, 2006

Thanks! I try! :wink:

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Posted at 1:05PM, May. 25, 2006

Edit-man awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

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Posted at 2:05PM, May. 25, 2006

Not to ruin the fun by going back on topic, but it appears that my host has resolved whatever issues they were having and the site has seemed a lot more stable in the last 24 hours than it has for about a week.

Posted at 2:05PM, May. 25, 2006

Great news! :-D

You're still gonna mirror here, though. Right?

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Posted at 3:05PM, May. 25, 2006

Well they were great up until this. So Iâ€™m hoping this was just a hiccup and that they are back to their normal level of service.

As for mirroring here? Of course! I loves Drunk Duck :)

Posted at 1:07PM, Jul. 21, 2006

If any of you ever go to my main site youâ€™ll notice that things got one step worse than just site outages.
It turns out doorhost, the hosting service we were using, sold their company to a soulless corporation of some sort. Not only that, but despite that I already paid them to renew my domain name, they didnâ€™t, so one of those evil bot fueled sites that buys domains with good pageranks and holds them hostage now has a hold of randompiratecomics.com (the .net version is also taken)

Iâ€™m really glad the duck is around, so that we still have our comics out there. We are working on getting a new host, and unfortunately, starting over with a new name.

Just wanted to give a status update

Posted at 7:07PM, Jul. 21, 2006

Cybersquatting! ugh! I feel for ya, man. The big problem with this here internet is that it's so hard to be depend on a company because they come and go like the wind. My webhost has stayed and even improved the quality of their service, but they've hiked up the rates.

Posted at 8:07PM, Jul. 21, 2006

Thats why you need several domain names. Also, I think if I was hosting my own site, I'd use my own PC to host it off of.

Posted at 10:07AM, Jul. 23, 2006

Well, we've got things a bit more sorted out right now.
The new site is http://www.randompiratecomics.net and we are also now part of the Rampage Network of webcomics.
Don't forget to update your bookmarks and tell your friends that we've moved! :)