A worrying trend
 

Yesterday I posted a couple of galleries, I get up this morning to find that the freehost I'd used has ceased trading, leaving behind a fpa.
This is the second freehost I've been using to have done this recently, ( I did wonder if I was the kiss of death, but Porn City is still going http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/wink.gif ).
Is it over optomism by the ppl that set the freehost up?
Or is there a scam going on ?



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unlikely to be Y3K Compliant
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Are you trying to tell me that coconuts migrate ?

Well, so who who the host, so I'll know who to avoid. I don't want to sign up for a service like that.

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fredicus -

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 http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif


Tim

This may be a racial issue at hand.. I would notify internic.

Redshoes, it was XXXfreehost.com, and they look to be well defunct.

Hardcorehosting, I'm sure your right, it's just that with XXXfreehost, and with CoolSexHost a couple of weeks ago, as soon as I build up the traffic, the buggers go belly-up.

Boneprone, GoFuckYourself http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/wink.gif



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unlikely to be Y3K Compliant
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Are you trying to tell me that coconuts migrate ?