Not two days after I started posting the webcount widgets of NaNoWriMo participants, and it's a big black bar on my screen. The site is slow, and I get a lot of server errors, database errors, timeouts...

DreamHost has been a fine provider, but they're not really equipped to give me the dedicated resources I need now that I've resumed publishing and my audience is stopping by more often. They've already told me that I'm pushing the far end of what they can provide.

That means it is, in fact, time for the site to move to a service with more elbow room. The good news is that I can probably afford it to an extent. The bad news is that I'm not sure exactly when the actual move will be (because I am still trying to write 50,000 words by the end of the month, and because of a few other logistical challenges) so the site will have to limp around for a while until then.

Hopefully the NaNoWriMo widgets will come back...

It was mid-November last year that the Lovely Economy Of Wonder And Rapturous Joy (LEOWARJ) forced me to abandon my setup at SliceHost and announce that my site was going dark due to lack of funds. At that time you, my readers, rallied to my cause and donated money -- enough to keep Ubersoft.net up and running for a little while, long enough for one of you kind readers to offer to host the site until it could get back on its feet.

Because you were all willing to do that, Ubersoft.net did not go dark, and I was able to continue publishing -- but my publishing schedule was shot all to Hell due to various concerns like getting a job, getting money, paying bills, moving to a new state, and various other things that made comics-related activities difficult.

One year later things are much better... but they're still not what they were. Here's an update.