GI Korea Changing Hosts

No, the Army has NOT shut down GI Korea’s blog — his current server simply cannot handle the traffic, so he’s moving to a new one. Anyway, he shot me an email which he asked for me to post below:

I would like to thank Robert for giving me the opportunity to let everyone know what is going on with my site the ROK Drop as well as thank everyone for the e-mails you have been sending wondering what has happened to the site. I appreciate how so many people miss the site and can’t wait to see it up and running again.

However, I would just like to make clear that the Army has not shut down my site as many people who e-mailed me thought may have happened. As some of you have probably noticed over the past month, my site has crashed a few times. My webhost provider Bluehost informed me each time the site crashed that my site was using up too many resources on their server as my site was going over 2,000 uniques a day. Each time the site crashed I turned off more and more of the WordPress plugins that make my blog work in order to decrease the strain on the server with the increase in site readership. The final time it crashed, Bluehost technical support wanted me to start deleting postings and comments from the site as well as moderating comments to reduce the amount of content their server has to process. I told them I would not delete any content from the site or discourage people from commenting. A lot of work was put into the site and I did not want delete any of it. Plus I don’t want to delete or discourage comments from the site. Interaction within the comments I believe is one of the best things about being a blogger especially with the number of knowledgable commenters that frequent the ROK Drop. When I told Bluehost that I would not delete content or discourage commenting that is when they told me I would have to find a new webhost provider.

So I began searching the net for a new webhost provider. As of yesterday I have found a new webhost provider who is in the process of moving my site over to their servers, which is no easy task considering I have nearly five years worth of material to move over. Once the site’s content is moved over to their servers, then the domain name www.rokdrop.com has to be migrated over to their servers as well which takes a few days. Since I am moving the site over to a new server I decided to take this time to do some site redesign as well. So once the site is up and running again it should be a new and improved ROK Drop that hopefully will be worth the wait to put it all together.

So I would just like to thank everyone again for sending me their e-mails along with thanking everyone in general for their support of the ROK Drop over the years. Hopefully within a week the site will be up and running again after I get all these technical issues worked out and I will begin blogging as usual. Until then I would just like to thank everyone for their patience on this matter.