As you’ve probably seen over the past few days, this site’s been nothing short of a disaster  in terms of working properly. Half the time its running incredibly slow, and now we’re having massive gaps of downtime like todays mess, that took the site down for a few hours.

Just thought I’d let you all know that the issue is the fact that we’re starting to outgrow our hosting, and are running beyond our means. Which is a good thing, as it means the site is starting to become popular, and we love all the readers for it. Sadly, this means that growth will be met with “rolling blackout” downtime on occasion until we can afford to upgrade to something better.

Right now, we average about 2 hours per day where our hosting account puts on the theoretical emergency brake to slow the site down, and unknown in terms of total crashing and slowdown.

Not exactly sure how we’ll be funding the upgrade just yet, by the way. There may end up being a few more ads on here to supplement the SportsK ones already up, I’m not sure. Going to have to figure out something though, no doubt.

By the suggestion of tweeter NastyKnate, I threw a paypal donation button up in the corner. If you want to use it, that’s awesome, but this will be the only post I’m going to mention it in, merely because I don’t like the concept of asking my readers for money. We should be doing a service for you, not the other way around.

My best suggestion regarding everything is just to continue reading, and if the site is down, merely check back later and hope for the best. Hopefully we’ll figure out a solution to this soon that doesn’t involve degrading the reading experience on here.

On that note, thanks a ton for actively reading the site, everyone. Its grown beyond anything I ever expected, and I hope we can continue to be a more enjoyable site as things go forward.