“This site has been suspended” (december 2010)
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The site above is a temporary server that I have in my livingroom. Some photos are broken but all the entries and patterns are there.
That’s the text popping up when trying to reach friendship-bracelets.net. I will with this entry try to explain why.
I jumped out of bed late yesterday night when getting an email to my phone saying that my site “Your site causes too much load on the servers, we will shut it down temporarily.”. Well, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING ME KNOW BEFORE YOU SHUT IT DOWN! *not*
The reason why my site is causing more load than other sites are the Generators. The old-fashion-style generator 1 and the alpha generator is on-demand generation of images directly on the server. Now, generating/editing/opening images on a server cause much load because
- They need more processor power than just sending an image to a user
- They take up much more space in the RAM than ordinary images
I’ve taken action for these reasons, but it doesn’t seem to be enough.
Solution
I’ve sent an email to my web hotel, begging them to start up the site again and that I will temporarily turn off the culprit apps (the generators) and try to replace them with client-side apps like Flash or similar.
The decision to start up the site again lies in the hands of my web hotel in Sweden, and they will hopefully start it up again in any minute. The working hours in Sweden is 08-17 and we are in the timezone GMT+01. The clock is just after eight when writing this.
I hope this answers some questions for now.
Stefan
I hope the web hotel will bring it up soon! I’ve been without the site for a few hours and even that has been driving me nuts. What if you were able to purchase more space, would the generators still be able to run the way they do now?
I hope they bring the site up again! It’s driving me crazy
Looks like there are still some problems. I keep getting a lot of “Service Temporarily Unavailable” and “Internal Service Errors”
i hope it works soon, im on crutches and need something to do pronto!!!
Awwww, I’m sorry.
Wow, tough luck! Sorry this happened,Stefan. Good luck making flash or similar generators. I’m the same as Carrie; without site for a few hours and I’m going bonkers. Good luck, work fast!
wo! they cant do that! its not fear!
i had spend all mornig lookin for a solution, even i found a “yahoo answer” topic about all this: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101220174719AAxDIRX
we all were getting mad! thanks u put on the page on your own server
so.. hope u find a solution soon, and mery chismas and happy new year.
o, sorry about my horrible english, im from argentina.
good luck!
hey
not fair
I was about to upload a picture as well.
This is the top website for bracelets, can’t they see that???
I hope generator 2 is kept, that is the one I use
i hope you will succeed. Why you try to make an independent application from the generator, so the people download it and make their patterns not on the site? i think is possible.
have a very happy christmas and keep going like that.
i hope you get this fixed! it wont let me open the generators!
omgz!!! im so glad it came back up!! i hope it will be fixed soon tho with the generators
Wow. This is really gonna stink! I was about to publish up some patterns today but I guess not! haha! I really hope the generators get started back up- this is the top site for bracelets!!!
now I cant see the actual patterns =[
when will it be back up?
The site IS back up. Or did you mean the generators? Probably in the near future.
hey i am from romania and i want to generate a friendship bracelet.how do this?
Login on the site and use Generator 3. Click “Generate”, then “Normal pattern” and then Generator 3. It’s a little buggy but works in most cases.
All this tech is above my head, but thank you for letting us know what’s going on Stefan. I’d hate to be you right now. Hang in there. I’ll send you some cyber hugs.
hola te digo que de programacion no entiendo nada… si supiera te ayudaria a crear algo en flash. porque yo uso muchisimo http://www.friendship-bracelets.net/ de hayme hice mas bueno jaja, por los tutos. bueno me voy a dormir… **☮☮solucionalo por favor te lo pido☮☮**. chauu Steffe
it has been a while! when will the generators work!
A new alpha generator has been uploaded, and it works (although some small bugs left to fix). Also, a new normal pattern generator is under development.
it has been a while when will it work!
come on!!! When are the generators going to come back on???????
I’m working as fast as I can. I’m almost done with a new alpha generator, check out http://friendship-bracelets.net/js_alpha_generator.php
um generator 2 is still out? fix soon? this is my life now…
Don’t you like Generator 3? It’s supposed to work the same way, and replace Generator 2.
i like generator 3 better but it wont let me save. is it up?
It is up, but it’s got that small bug that you indicate. Try to log out, go to “www.friendship-bracelets.net” instead of just “friendship-bracelets.net” and see how it goes.
using generator 3 and trying to save after i logged out and in and going on “www.friendship-bracelets.net” it pops up with a message saying this “You are not logged in via the website, so you cannot save the pattern. Please login and click the link leading to this generator.”
any suggestions?
btw thats a bad thing. its not letting me save…
I’ve added some magic to the .htaccess file on the server. Does it work now?
Steffe when will they be turned back on? I hate generator 3 and I don’t mind if that goes but 1 and 2 are awesome =[
Sorry, the PHP generators you talk about will come back again
. They put too much load on the server. Generator 3 is just temporary until I get an AJAX version going (like alpha generator 2).
oh okkk. Do you know when they will be up?
Hey, its still suspended now
i miss making bracelets, your site was so helpful. Hope it gets fixed…its been a year 
Guys! Whats up with the website
?
You are fuch!
stefan help us
@Corners the site was suspended today.
Thanks for letting us know! I was so worried because I have so many bracelets to make for people!
Hope the sites up soon!
Hey Stefan,
too much traffic on the site? – What can we do? – Less comments? Donation? – I hope everything’s gonna be fixed again – because honestly: I need your gorgeous project!
We need your projects soon …. Thanks for your help….
your site is the best! hope all works out soon. i miss you!
So sad to see it suspended! Had a bracelet to make for my friend and had already faved the pattern to start later ):
Hopefully the site will be up soon!!
I am so sad to see it suspended! Was it the generators or something again? What can we do to help fix it? I will donate more money if that is the case! I can’t get enough of this site!
Oh i hope it gets fixed soon!!!! what happened now? this is making me sad. i have patterns i was hoping to get figured out and i have projects that need to be done almost ASAP.
hope everything gets fixed. like everyone else. the site being suspended is going to drive me insane!!
Hm.. That’s weird… One year pass and generator 2 still not work…
OH SHUT UP
Go to the friendship bracelets .net web side
No stepet
Hi Im so pretty