Some of you may have noticed we were down for a little while yesterday. Today was filled with short “changing servers” messages and even cryptic server pages. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for the messages and forum posts expressing concern.
AVfM has been dodging a bullet for some time by changing between differing levels of less expensive hosting plans in attempt to avoid dedicated servers. A while back we attempted running on a compromise between performance and price, a so-called VPS server which cost us about a 100$ a month, but we shortly found it offered no better performance than cheaper shared hosting. So we decided to move back to shared hosting and try to stretch it out and abuse it for as long as we could without getting kicked off.
Unfortunately, this didn’t work for too long either, because our level of traffic and advanced features put stress on available resources – mainly CPU use percentage – on a level of abuse never attempted on shared-hosting plans. This rattles our hosting company, who showed their displeasure yesterday by shutting us down without prior warning.
It is actually not surprising. On November 2 we hit our first 1,000,000 visits to this site after 15 months of being online. Now, less than 4 months later, we are about to hit 1,500,000. This kind of growth was bound to be accompanied by some growing pains.
So, thanks to the final push from the hosting company, we finally went the whole stretch and ordered a full on dedicated server. Unfortunately, this change is expensive. We are now going from the temporary $100.00 per year shared hosting to a new and never before done $219.00 per month. Success has its price.
We apologize for the rather un-elegant way in which this transition happened, but we simply had no warning. The moment we got shut down we purchased the dedicated server plan on the spot, but due to the way the internet works, it takes time for the changes the propagate.
You couldn’t access the old server because it was shut down, and you couldn’t see the new one since it takes time for changes to propagate. Bigger companies usually handle this transition in such a way that you simply see things served from the older server while the move is happening. We didn’t have this luxury due to no warning time.
Thanks for your patience and for supporting this sites mission.
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The data transfer has completed and we are back.
I was concerned after seeing it offline, given that there is a growing degree of government-sponsored web censorship, as well as a significant number of individuals and entities who would prefer that the voices of this site were silenced.
Looking at the big picture, however, I see this as good news. It proves we are gaining momentum.
The party whistles in femmo gobs fell flat when they saw the site up again.
“Damnit sisters” they wail… “Put the champagne back on ice. Party’s over. Back to scowls and frowns again.”
For crying out loud Paul, you scared the crap out of me! I was down to my last red pill this morning and by this afternoon I was talking like a mangina. I almost bought some girl a drink at the pub!! Brrr frightening! I am ok now tho, thanks, but I (we) will need to bulk up on our prescriptions…
One thing you forgot to let us know Paul, is what the new price increase will now be? So I’ll tell you what, I am going to send you 100.00 for five new crisp white T-shirts…. And if you can send one to the first five WOMEN to donate 100.00 bucks or more… OK? Sorry guys, but I can’t think of a better way to cover them up and “really” make them look (and think) hot at the same time… Can you?
Donate! Donate! Donate! Somebody has to say it!
LOL, thanks Jack. The cost of the new hosting is $219.00 per month.
And I will keep those shirts on stand-by.
Well you know Paul, this is half your dam fault in the first place… guy goes around pissing truth all over feminist ideology in every corner of the world, and wonders why he’s got too much dam traffic… he now needs some kind of a Super-Server… and he wants ‘us’ to pay for it??
Hell man, half of that traffic are feminists anyways… checking in… to see how much time they have left…
So that’s why I say, Ladies&Manginas!? Its time you started putting-out for us Men!
And, Paul is going to send you a nice-new-crisp-white-T-shirt, just for paying….
Good news… I had seen the site off before, I was less anxious, however hopeful, this time.
Let’s check on AVFM’s monthly plans, then!
First time international transfer didn’t work… :/ Nothing unsolvable. One time donation first, to see how deep will be the Big Brother’s stab.
Hey Paul,
I don’t know if you watch much TV but have you seen this years season of Survivor? This year it’s men against women!
And it shouldn’t surprise you that the women are getting creamed.
The last episode was called “Total Dysfunction” and guess who they were talking about?
I haven’t followed the show in years but someone mentioned it the other day on another site. It is absolutely hilarious to watch women form a committee and listen to all the women’s “voices” and then still not be able to get anything done.
And after failing to get anything done the women saunter over to the men’s camp and bat their eyes and ask for fire, or muscle, or technical knowledge and guess what the men do? Wrong! They say NO!!!!! Then the women say, “What happened to chivalry”. And the guys are like, “Ain’t no chivalry here when you are competing against us”.
Absolutely inspiring to see men refuse to help women and be pawns to female privilege.
If you haven’t seen this I hope you do. I think you can watch it anytime on CBS.com or you can go to Sidereel.com and follow their links to watch it.
The third episode happens tomorrow night (Wednesday) at 8pm.
I don’t know who will win the money but as a microcosm of female/male relations it is fascinating to watch women fail and then insist that men privilege them. How long will men resist? My money is that at least one woman will weasel her way into the men’s good graces and make it to the end. That’s how they do.
Jean, as I stated on another site CBS cannot allow this to happen. A woman will win the competition. It will be a sham and all males will know it but it will not even be on a womans radar. She will rationalize it with that hamster of hers and if the facts are pointed out to her she will screech “you are a misogynist with a teeny pecker go back to your mommies basement”. Mark my words when this years competition is over a woman will have won.
A woman will win.
The minute they announced it was gurls against guys, the outcome was already a done deal.
I hate this show for that reason, although my husband enjoys watching bikinis slip and women offering to take their clothes of in exchange for stuff while I sit there and gripe.
You notice they got their fire, then when the guys won and women lost, the women were tossed a flint for fire, anyway. No explanation why they got it since it was supposed to go to the winners, which were the men.
The women are mostly young and in good condition, whle the men are a collection of oddities.
The main homepage is still not accessible but only sends me to a cPanel message. Thought the whole site was down but it’s really only the homepage.
With such costs, I really think you might consider some advertising partners. I know that Google is probably not going to be ok with the anti-pc style of the text but there are alternatives like infolinks. Setting it up properly is very quick and easy and could in all likelihood cover or exceed the hosting costs.
I’m speaking from experience.
I know that ads aren’t very pretty but with no public support or funding, and lots of expenses, something must be done. Besides feminists like skepchick are doing that and probably making a ton of money in the process.
What main homepage. Can you be more specific?
Also try clearing your browser/windows cache.