Code Genocide

I got news today that iSteamy has become so popular that my hosting company is complaining about the number of connections. They aren’t complaining about the bandwidth, but instead simply the number of people connecting at once.

This caused the problem that they limited the number of connections that the account could get at once. This caused some people to get some unresponsive times in the app or on the website.

So anyways, I am in talks with DreamHost to get a virtual private server which should hopefully stop them from complaining. The problem with this is that it can take a couple of weeks, or more, and I can’t let the app and website be as flaky as they made it. So my temporary solution was to offload most of the standard server connections to another web server.

My hope is that this will remove enough of the connections from the standard server so that viewing media will work like normal, or better. So here is hoping that it removes enough of the standard connections to fix the problem while not causing a surge in bandwidth speeds on the other server.

So, how can you help?

Make sure that you install version 1.0.15.

Thats it. Hopefully these changes will do the trick.