I still can't load it.

Running a test from Pingdom returns: "No Response."

Pingdom Tools

No, I mean the site's "down," but it's not "gone" (a la tubescan)

Just some server issues. Hopefully be back at some point today.

lol...oh.

I know all about server issues. About two hours ago Vevmo was in a death spiral until I put an end to some "script kiddies" running bad Rails code off of the shared mysql server....

Yeah something was definately going on then,,,,nothing would load and it was REALLY slow. Good thing we have Bacchus on the job!

Had I known about the volume of traffic that we would get, I would have gone with a different host. I originally just set up Vevmo as a place for Kathleen, Katie, myself and a few others to hang out and talk about Big Brother - so I did not consider the scalability of the platform or the host.

What happens is we are slammed and sharing a server with 20 other websites and when it is busy around here, everyone else is slow. On that token, when one of their sites gets Dugg or slashdotted - it brings Vevmo down hard.

The good news for us is that I am the biggest whiner on the server so I usually get everyone else to give give give while we take take take. Also, the one good thing I can say about Dreamhost is that their customer support people are great (Brandon you rock!) and if I see an issue and send a personal email, I usually see said issue resolved within 15-20 minutes.

That being said, I'll eventually be moving to a more robust host (or Dreamhost VPS) and am in the process (looooong process) of coding (in ROR) a new format and "Vevmo engine" that will hopefully be ready to go this fall.

Most of that didn't make sense to me (being a computer "lamen") but I appreciate all the work you do, so THANKS!!

is this site back up because it says i dont have permission to enter

I checked this AM and it wasn't working....

Im So Mad. Sr Had Some Good Stuff On It And People.

Not as good as VEVMO!