Because Codebetter.Com’s traffic has been growing at
a fairly fast rate, I’ve been in touch with our hosting provider
about ways that our hardware can keep up with our level of
traffic. They recently suggested that we be moved to a better
hardware platform, which they graciously agreed to do for us.
They assured me that this process would be seamless, and so I gave them the go ahead to do it, which they did in the middle of the night, last night.
Since this particular hosting provider has always provided me with
prompt support and near flawless performance, I trusted that the site
wouldn’t be down.
Well, if you tried to visit us this morning, you know that we were
showing the classic ASP.NET “Yellow Screen of Death.”
“CodeBetter?” You’re thinking, “Yeah Right!” In fact, the site was
hosed to such a point, where I couldn’t even put up a “Technical
Difficulties” page.
So, this wasn’t a very good example of how to code better.
I should have had better communication with them throughout the
process. I should have suggested to them that we test the new server
before making the DNS switch. I know better.
Oh well, live and learn, I guess. Hopefully the new hardware will be faster, and the site will be more reliable.
-Brendan