this time the issue was the jack character in the poker game -- there were 24,000 mp3s in his MP3FILES folder.. apparently they recently 'discovered' that any folder with more than 12,000 files in it bogs the server down, not just for this website, but for every other website on the server... so I copied it to my desktop and deleted it off the server so they'd at least get the site back up and running... and now I have to find the original poker game FLA file, go in and change a dozen lines of code or more so that the MP3FILES folder will now be MP3FILES1 and MP3FILES2... so have the game look in the first folder, and if the MP3 called up by the game isn't in THAT folder, check the second one... it's bullshit. because servers are basically just PCs without a monitor, mouse, or keyboard hooked up. and if I can have 24,000 files in the MP3FILES folder on my PC and have it load up just fine it doesn't make sense why a 'server' would have a problem... so anyway, until I can find the original FLA file, re-code it for two MP3FILE folders and re-uplaod it, for the foreseeable future when we jackbox or play poker no one can use jack...
just one thing after another with these bozos...
it isn't so much the problem itself or the fact that I now have to reacquaint myself with the programming on the poker game in order to fix it, it's the fact that they shut the site down 2 or 3 times already in the last year and only recently discovered the real problem... assuming this actually IS the real problem. who knows, I could reprogram the poker game and then six months from now they'll shut the site down again for some other bullshit reason.
I really don't know. I assume they're trying to get me and roy to upgrade our service to the next tier -- go from $120/year to $240/year... but I always thought the best way to get people to upgrade was to promise NEW shit, not slowly degrade what they promised you and chip away at what you already had until you realize in order to have what you USED TO have you have to 'upgrade'...
the real problem is they moved us onto a server that had a bunch of more successful sites on it... originally we were just on a random server, and we were one of the most popular sites on that server. but in all their 'wisdom' they probably tried to get organized and move all their more popular sites onto fewer servers, which means there is more competition on each server.... which means problems are going to become very evident... at least before we were on with a few hundred websites that got ZERO traffic... so we were dominating the server and everything was okay. now we're on a server with a bunch of websites that get similar traffic... that's them being 'organized'... I say it's them trying to get people to 'upgrade'...
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