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Old 04-26-2001, 03:22 AM  
TFCash
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I think that many of the free hosts get in over their heads. It doesn't take long to do either. You see the problem is, the free host has no control over where, or to how many people a user will submit say a tgp gallery to. They also have no control over how well the pages look. So if you have a crappy looking page with lot's of traffic coming into it with no revenue being generated, it doesn't take long to bring it all down. I'm not saying that is what happened to your site, but if your host was being swamped by say 30 or 40 other sites eating up a ton of traffic, they may have just gone through and dropped any pages doing traffic in hopes of getting it back in control. As an example, two weeks ago on the 11th one of my clients got a listing on the Hun. For the majority of that day his traffic spiked from 2.5 Mb/sec up to 6.5 Mb/sec, which is roughly 43Gb worth of traffic more than he was use to. Granted he had some big galleries that he posted, but as you can see with a free host it would not take many of those types of hits to really make problems for you, especially if your not making good ratios off of it. Sorry for being so long winded, My mouth/fingers will run amok if not tied down sometimes


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