Shoutouts

This goes out to the lovely guys who’ve put us on their “to do” lists. Actually, their blogrolls. Haha.
Secret Simon – Hey am uber glad that we’re the first (and only, so far) 18+ link on there. Stalk us, please!
Thought Not – Hi handsome. Thanks for the emails and the NC-17 link! Your secret’s safe with us. Please keep us posted about the progress. 😉
I Can’t Believe It’s Gay – Wow. That’s a huge banner! Thanks!

Higher Powered – Hey Traveller. Thanks for the link and welcome to the club.

05 Apr 05 By Editor D 1 Comment

QueerClick Gallery Going On Hols!

Hi guys, just to inform you lovelies that we’ll be shutting the Gallery section during the migration to our new server and domain as well as to conserve bandwidth. You know what happens when you have Andy, Trent and Fleshbot linking to you on the same day! LOL. We figured it’s better to keep the blog from being shut down.
This should last only a coupla days and we’ll try to get the Gallery up and running asap on the other side.
Thanks for your understanding!

30 Mar 05 By Editor D Write a comment!

QueerClick Gallery

Hi guys! Some site news to share.
In the next week or so, we will be migrating the QueerClick Gallery to another webhosting plan and it will be having it’s own domain, which we will reveal later. The gallery will stand as a microsite on its own. By doing so and spreading our content into two domains, we hope it’ll help ease the bandwidth overload.
With the new account, we will be getting EVEN MORE webspace, so that means more eye candies for all to be merry.
Stay tuned, folks!

29 Mar 05 By Editor D Write a comment!

Bandwidth Revisited

We were down for the nth time yesterday. Just can’t seem to be able to keep up with the exponential bandwidth increment.
We’ve made the rounds with several webhosts and most of them either do not provide the amount of bandwidth we need on shared hosting, or if they do, are too expensive to use. Most suggested we use a dedicated server, but for a small ‘lil blogsite like ours, that’s economically unsound, and we cannot afford that solution.
The good news is our current webhost has announced a very generous (and timely) upgrade in monthly bandwidth to 165GB. With that, they’ve introduced a cap of 5.5GB per day, afterwhich the site shuts down. QC sucks up slightly more than 8GB now. So that probably means we’ll be shut down once every single day. Yikes!
Thankfully we’ve managed to negotiate for an extra bandwidth allowance, by paying more that is! So let’s hope this is the last you’ll be hearing about this problem.
Sorry if this all sounds dreadful and boring. But we figured it’s better to keep you guys informed about what’s happening in the backstage. Now on with the porn!

28 Mar 05 By Editor D Write a comment!

Bandwidth

Hi guys, a short note to keep everyone posted about the bandwidth issue.
We are in the midst of sorting that out and perhaps a change of webhost to better accomodate the high traffic QueerClick receives. Unfortunately the webhosting plan we’ve subscribed to comes with a fixed bandwidth and the site gets automatically “cut off” when a predetermined maximum daily quota has been reached unless additional bandwidth is bought. This is to prevent “site leech” (jargon our webhost threw at us!) and prevent site owners from paying through their noses if the traffic hits through the roof.
The extra bandwidth we’ve acquired two days ago to last us till the end of the month has already been completely used up, so we’ve bought some more and hopefully that will cover us good.
During this period, you might experience some “downtime” of the site if the new daily quota has been reached as well.
We’re currently negotiating for the most reliable plan and best deal with a couple of webhosts. Thanks to those who have written in with your webhost recommendations. We will consider all of them. We seek your understanding and continued visits during this period.
Thank you. =)

25 Mar 05 By Editor D 2 Comments

Maxed Out

QueerClick maxed out!
Hi guys!
First up, a HUGE apology (we’re on our knees kowtowing to seek your understanding) for being Missing In Action for the past 36 hours!
We haven’t gone sipping sangria by the beach. On the contrary, the last 36 hours have been nothing but an excruciatingly exasperating affair with the webhost.
QueerClick has recently become quite a traffic magnet, and whilst we’re dancing around in the house, in celebration, to Kylie’s “I Should Be So Lucky”, we realised we’re quickly approaching the webhost’s already very generous traffic quota, only halfway through the month! YIKES!
So we took the initiative to get in touch with the webhost and started discussing about getting extra bandwidth in fear that the site might be down. The guys er…how should I put it?…let’s just say they were a bit slow in their responses (cue: Kylie’s “Slow”), and that’s with me holding the bitch in from breaking out!!
We didn’t hear from them so we went to bed with our Gloomy Bears and the next morning, we woke up to a very chummy note which had replaced QueerClick which read:

Account Suspended. Bandwidth Exceeded. Best Wishes, Servage.net

No prior warning (we were the ones who contacted them in advance), no grace period (even though we’ve already sent them our distress signal) whatsoever. They just suspended the site! And isn’t “Best Wishes” a tad inappropriate? It’s like saying to the family of the deceased “Good Luck!”
What ensued were countless support tickets being issued, each taking a long time to be replied at their end. All we wanted was for the site to be up and running as soon as possible. But we’d get a reply which would ask us for the amount of bandwidth we’d like to buy, then one which would give us the rates (which is exhorbitant by the way seeing that they only have one standard plan and we have no choice but to buy extra bandwidth by the unit!) and another that would ask for our “permission” to proceed. And after that a reply for our permission for them to charge us payment. And after that (good grief!) a reply for us to click on a link to make online payment! And after payment was made, they made us wait for hours to get the site up. 24/7 helpdesk support? I don’t think so. We waited our asses on a block of ice for some action to be taken but they probably closed shop and went to sleep! What irked us even more was the fact that they’d sign off each reply with a smiley! Hello? We don’t need no smileys! We need the site to be up like our pieces of morning wood!
(Cue: Kylie’s “Breathe”)
Huff….Puff…Huff…
Okay, had to get that off our chests. We’re suffering from Bronchitis now. *Coughs*
So, that’s the story. We’ve managed to get the site up again for the rest of the month. Meanwhile, we are desperately looking for a good webhost. One which will host adult content and give generous amounts of traffic (unmetered traffic is too good a thing to be true and only works if the site is small frankly) or at least not charge exhorbitant rates by the gigabyte! We’re not too concerned about webspace as we are not a multimedia heavy site. Mostly images (altho we keep them HUGE and CLEAR for you lovelies!). What we’re concerned with is getting enough bandwidth to tide us through each month.
We’re not going to ask for donations to keep the site running. Not at least for now. But as we’re kinda victims of our own success, what we need now is a good webhost. If you’ve got a good one to recommend, please drop us a note!
Having said all the above, we’d like to thank all of you for making QueerClick what it is today.
So we should see this as a very good problem! =)
Once again, apologies for the down-time. It’s freakin’ unprofessional. Now we need to go grab some comfort food.
(Cue: Kylie’s “Chocolate”)

20 Mar 05 By Editor D 1 Comment