Popularity can kill you

My funny Halloween costume blog finally went viral yesterday with a heap of traffic coming from all over the world. Only problem. I was on a shared server and basically gave that a right royal ass rogering. So there was some late night shifts to another server. Which I also bend over :( So then it was moved to another server and my includes are all screwed which meant no navigation, no ads and no tracking.

This is a site I usually spend 3 hrs a week tending to now I've spent 6 hrs just fussing about with no good solution. The site has also been moved from my blog server to a virgin server so I cant update it until I export my database and templates and install Moveable Type. Yay there's half a day gone. And all 2 days before Halloween. After this i was expecting not to have to touch it much at all.

So make sure that if you are doing a project which has the potential to go nuts (50,000 people in a few hours) then make sure you're host is ready.