Rant: my portfolio site crashed during a live critique session

I was showing my piece to a group of 12 artists last Tuesday and the whole portfolio site went down. It was the WORST timing because I just told everyone this was my best work in 2 years. Turns out my hosting plan only allowed 5GB of bandwidth and I blew through it from the traffic. I sat there refreshing for 10 minutes while people awkwardly stared at my loading screen. I moved everything over to a static gallery on a cheaper host with more bandwidth that night. Has anyone else had a platform fail them right when they needed to show off?

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cole_murphy29d ago

Wait, people actually stared at your loading screen for 10 minutes? Sounds like you care way more about this than they did, most folks just move on with their day. A site going down is annoying for sure but its not like you lost a client or a job over it, right?

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