Crazy
Just a couple days ago, we popped up on the front page of some popular sites such as Reddit and Digg (welcome to LHT guys!). This was pretty awesome, however, our web hosting didn’t think so and throttled our site due to the surge in traffic. This was pretty not awesome. As a result, our site was slow to load and sometimes wouldn’t even load at all for some of you guys. We had to strip out all the “unnecessary” elements of the page so our web host would remove the throttle. Needless to say we are looking for a new web hosting service =)
Ever since then, we have been working to get the site back up and fully functional. We just brought back this site news section as well as a couple links that had gone missing.
But for everyone who is new, welcome to Left-Handed Toons!
-Drew and Justin
I wonder how web hosting services would feel if WE throttled THEM!?
Good news for the site. I'm a big fan, so I hope you find some solid hosting so you can continue to improve on what you have.
By the way, as soon as anyone figures out what the verb "to Tim" actually means, I would be very interested in knowing. O_O
Time to give your hosting the ol' punch to the cunt.
finally, comments!!!
Awesome, comments on the news. Now, only if we could get comments on the drawings.
Maybe have a comment board opened for a day and a half and then lock it to keep site traffic and total amt of files hosted low?
ty. big fan of all your work.
I'll second Durka's note. Per-comic comments would be great.
Keep up the awesome work, guys. Been reading (and lovin') the comics since the site was first linked from spinnerdisc. They're all just so dang original and different from everything else out there.
Good luck finding a good Web host. If your old one offered any sort of customer service they would have buzzed you first before shutting down your operation. It's really stupid for a host to shut someone down b/c of too much traffic. That means that since your site is doing really well the host turns you off. Geezzz
Hey you guys, I got hosting with GoDaddy.com, they're pretty good, really cheap, and good products (hosting domain whatever). If you type in DIGG2 for the coupons you get a deal like $5 off or something. check it out if you are still looking! PS check out my site.. I got a few days left before opening http://www.skribbs.com!!!
Don't go with GoDaddy for hosting a site as popular as this. It's low bandwidth and cheap customer service, and it has features like Server Side Include and some MySQL features turned off (at least, it did for the account I had with them).
There are lots of good hosts but it depends on the money. I'm sure you guys know what you're doing.
Yeah… we're still investigating our options. Hopefully the transition will go smoothly as possible when we do pick one.
@per-comic-comments: could happen, we'll see.
Check out http://lunarpages.com; they offer a very impressive 3500 GB Bandwith for their basic $6.95/month product. I'm not trying to pump lunar pages (even though this clearly is a pump), but to my knowledge it's a good deal.
I use them as my host and have no complaints.
Not a great place to meet chicks?
I met Barb, Blanche, Candy, Carol, Dawn, Grace, Pat, Peg, Rose, and Sue there.