talkhorror.com server lag / down

[gore]

Hey,

Now that I know who owns this site I can possibly help. See, your site is running on FreeBSD. I happen to run FreeBSD at home quite a lot. FreeBSD is one of the better OSs in the world (OS = Operating system for the non geeks lol).

OK, so, here is some good news:

You're running FreeBSD

You have Apache on top of FreeBSD as the web server. (That's good because the Apache Web Server project, they themselves run FreeBSD, that should tell you how good these are together).

Bad news? I don't know what kind of access you have to your servers. I haven't ever dealt with a hosting company in my life. The web server I used to have, I did myself. I installed Linux on a machine, installed Apache, set it up, and then I would tell friends my IP address so hey could connect to it, and put the server in the DMZ on my network so that the hardware firewall protecting my network wouldn't stop them.

So, basically, you have a great set up, but I do find it weird that the Database errors come up looking like Windows server errors, because you have FreeBSD. That's a little weird to me. Also, what kind of access do you have? Did the web service people say you have shell access? Telnet? SSH? Because there is a certain amount of info you can get if so.

Also, you could simply ask them why on a lot of days the server seems to start lagging so badly. I mean it could simply be nothing more than them installing patches and doing back ups, but doing them at 3 PM is a little weird.