Comments on: We made it! And we found the bug!

By: rom016

rom016 — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:39:23 +0000

I think as a solution you could get 2/3 $10 server sites and have the entries spread across them. Possible each one based in a country, with a high amount of entrants.

By: rom016

rom016 — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:33:42 +0000

That was the problem everyone had. If you kept trying then eventually it would work.

By: debarra

debarra — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:14:58 +0000

hey. im debarra, ive been making games as a hobby for a while. but htis was the first Ludum Dare i was going to enter. but when i logged in through Word Press and returned to Ludum Dare it said i was signed out and couldnt submit my game. i was wondering would this have anything to do with the problem you suffered

By: thiagocamposviana

thiagocamposviana — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:08:02 +0000

The first I noticed before was the lack of pagination, I noticed that you have added it now, nice idea.

By: SLiV

SLiV — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:37:42 +0000

Thanks guys! Heroicly done.

By: cornedor

cornedor — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:44:51 +0000

Wow, very nice.

By: ExciteMike

ExciteMike — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:03:14 +0000

At this point it seems entirely appropriate to set up a donate button in a conspicuous spot. It’s clearly costing you guys non-trivial amounts of money and time! I certainly appreciate it enough to toss some money your way!

(for the love of God don’t make it an entrance fee, though!)

By: siebharinn

siebharinn — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:26:47 +0000

Nice job troubleshooting and getting it fixed. Most people haven’t experienced that kind of pressure. You guys did good.

By: Milo

Milo — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:45:09 +0000

You should enforce an $800 entrance fee… for Notch.

By: PoV

PoV — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:10:46 +0000

CDN’s distribute static content. This weekend’s troubles is all from the generation/addition of dynamic content. Our $10/mo host kicked us off for CPU usage, not storage, not bandwidth.

By: callidus

callidus — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:40:48 +0000

you guys rock, thanks for holding the fort so we could complete another successful LD!

By: Elegwa

Elegwa — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:55:55 +0000

Anyone who gets this far down, I’ve had an idea (I’m sure I’m not the first one to have this one) but if you wish you had money to give to LD48, well we have prototypes for games now don’t we? Get your compo/jam entry cleaned up and ready for a release, sell it, throw up ad’s, or whatever you want! Then donate all that money to our favourite website, ludumdare.com. I’m certainly going to try! “All profit goes to ludumdare.com”

By: ButtercupSaiyan

ButtercupSaiyan — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:50:32 +0000

Holy crap, what a nightmare! D= I’m glad I submitted mine early…

By: G4JC

G4JC — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:15:36 +0000

This is also why they make CDN’s. I suggest you guys invest in one. :-O
Content Distribution Systems can kill a load of traffic at the core, my personal preference is cloudflare but there’s others too (just not free).

By: recursor

recursor — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:03:44 +0000

Just thought I’d add my thanks also. I really appreciate what you guys do, and did to keep everything going this time!

By: PoV

PoV — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:44:26 +0000

The site hurt is a combination of factors. The compo system’s days of paining the server should be over now. If anything, It’s lighter-weight than the rest of the wordpress stuff now.

By: K1NET1K

K1NET1K — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:42:54 +0000

the notch effect

By: tecfreak

tecfreak — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:09:02 +0000

Awesome! Just add the donate button and we’ll help with all what we can!

By: jonbro

jonbro — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:10:27 +0000

an alternate to these would be heroku, but that isn’t php either… you would need to rewrite the whole compo engine in ruby to make it work on that.

By: barigorokarl

barigorokarl — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:04:39 +0000

Say what? There is a random button? Did I miss it? Now I feel stupid …