Howdy all! Corbin here with a few quick updates.
First off, I’d really like to thank everybody that donates to the hosting fund. For those of you that don’t know, there’s a small link directly below our beloved artist’s donation button that donates directly into the account that hosts this comic. Occasionally you guys click it, and put small amounts of money into the account, and that actually keeps us afloat. I’m very grateful for this. I don’t like talking about donations too much, but I have to say this here on the front page because you guys keep donating with faked emails and so I can’t email my thank-you notes directly to your inbox. Thank you so much!
(To address a persistent rumor, no, I am not pocketing the hosting donations. They go directly to Dreamhost and I can’t touch the money at all.)
Secondly, you may have noticed that there’s been a rash of 502 errors over the past two months. This is just a growing pain, as Manly Guys has gotten ridiculously popular as of late. Alexa puts this site somewhere in the top 80,000 or so sites on the entire Web. That’s pretty popular! But popularity has a downside. In this case, the problem is that every time a new comic is uploaded, everybody’s RSS reader dings and everybody rushes over to see the comic. This tends to be a little bit too much for our poor little server. I’ve done a couple of tweaks in the back to try to minimize this; I’m proud to notice that today’s update did not kill the server like it normally does.
That’s all I wanted to say today. Thank you for flying Manly Guys and we hope that you continue to enjoy the story!
~ C.
Fantastic work as always, Corbin. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! NR and the other sites got similar treatment, so they should stay up as well.
Thank you kindly sir!
Corbin: (N).
A God among mere mortals.
Hey, did you see Corbin? He totally let me kiss his toes as thanks for his work. And then he let me buy him a beer!
(V).
Something incredible, yet under appreciated.
Did you see that website? It used to crash, but then an unnamed hero came in and corbin’d up the place. Now it runs smoother than a con artist wrapped in velvet.
Would it help if we waited a few hours before coming to the ding of our RSS?
Not really. I haven’t looked at the statistics closely, but it would appear that lots of people use automated RSS readers, which download all of the new RSS data immediately. Since the RSS feed embeds the comics (!!!!) this causes lots of bandwidth load already. The correct solution is mostly to make sure that we can withstand the onslaught on updating days.
Also this helps with the other problem, which is that occasionally we get frontpaged on Reddit.
Fucking reddit.
damn right it’s gotten popular.
it’s fucking awesome.
Thank you for keeping things running! :)
Thanks for all your work.
That explains a lot
Jared’s pupils in the first panel aren’t colored in. Actually sorta adds to the sheer derpyness he’s emitting, though.
Tell them there’s a hack called Pony Liberator that makes all the ponies free :) and the shops :) ah, things bronies do to not have to pay for Rarity XD
Hey, it looks like you guys aren’t using a CDN – which would not only help balance the load but make temporary downtime regional. Have you guys considered this? Also thanks for the update – I never noticed that button *drops some money in*