Here's my working theory for the traffic increase: It ain't a sudden interest in guns or the firearm enthusiast community in Georgia.
Used to be, search engines were the annoying factor in anonymous web site visits. But it was a dance with the devil: The site has to be cataloged by the...
Last night's upgrade was about moving the site's database to a more powerful server, and adding space for storing backups that are ever-growing in size. That went reasonably smoothly, but while testing performance after the upgrade I found the site under heavy attack from brute force login...
Hey, all.
Just a heads up: We're going to be taking the site offline for some server updates, sometime after midnight tonight. Hopefully not more than an hour or two.
We didn't make any deliberate changes relative to site performance. We routinely apply OS and control panel updates to the web and database servers, which can have an impact. That happened twice this week, so I can't rule out server-side related difference, For the vast majority of visitors...
Download speed tests are not the same as web page loads.
Other sites you've tested may have content delivery networks (CDN) in place. That's when the site's resources are cached in a network of servers, typically all over the world. So, if your VPN is a server in San Fran or Munich, the VPN...
We need to run a few update procedures on the site's database server. We'll keep the downtime to least we can manage while safely performing the update. Expect it to be about an hour.
There's a very plain difference between saying "I didn't care for the cream of wheat," and telling the owner he should stay open until 3am because that's when you prefer to eat your breakfast.
One is a reasonable complaint. The other is just being a self-centered jackass.