You guys killed the server

First of all, I never thought that http://sigs.eegrasstudios.com/ would get so popular! About 8:30AM CST today I tried to access eegrasstudios and encountered a 500 server error. I thought this was intermittent because HostGator routinely changes hardware and update kernels to keep ahead of security threats. Well, 4:00 PM comes and its not there. I hit up HostGator tech support and find out you guys aren’t using a lot of bandwidth, you’re using up CPU usage.

Holy crap. I’ve heard of webmasters complain about bandwidth overages, but CPU overages? I think this site is generating upwards of 1,000 images A DAY. Damn. I’ve disabled it for the rest of the month to make the server hosts happy.

Long story short (tl;dr): Donate! If I get donations I can upgrade to a beefier server. If you all donate even $0.10 a month, thats a full 100.00 I can use on the server! All donations to my PayPal account will go to the server, nothing else. So, please, if you use http://sigs.eegrasstudios.com/ and like it, donate. It will help keep this from happening again.

- Travis

Edit: I’ve brought back the script with a few additions to it to possibly help with the load. Still, guys, donate. If this happens again, I might have to think of turning the script off all together…

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