What a day! minor disaster

[admin]

Hello and apologies to all.
I had a small bushfire on my hands today.
I, like many of you visited to find a CPU exceeded error this morning.

While I have plenty of space and bandwidth on my shared host site where I have a few domains, including this board - I am required to comply with CPU (processor use) rules and reasonable limits.
I have a small adserving set up that supplies images and banners to other sites and the reporting function went psycho this morning, running continuous reports. The software, Openx has just had an update and there are a few problems.
Anyway the way thisis handled by shared hosting is to say "not my problem" and simply suspend the offending server unitl it is sorted.
12 hours later, it seems to be back to normal ofter generating over a terrabyte of files - yikes...1,200Mb.
It played havoc with everything, hopefully back to normal now. I'll look at moving the adserver to another machine over the next few weeks. Hopefully, it will behave until then.

[Truckman]

You can't fool us...This is all just a prelude to the September challenge: "Set Your Computer on  Fire In a Clever Setting"...My entry will show an HP Pavilion afire on top of a pile of my ex-wife's photos... ...Ben

[Cygnus]

I am glad that you have it fixed (at least for now).

[Tim N]

Guess thats why I couldnt reply to anything last night ! At least you got it sorted now !

[admin]

Sorry guys.

Now Ben, no buring of PC's...recycle...and compost the photos