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While I agree that they could've called us before shutting the site down, I think one should note that impetus ran on a shared server and the hosting-TOS likely
by janoelze 13y ago
While I agree that they could've called us before shutting the site down, I think one should note that impetus ran on a shared server and the hosting-TOS likely state that they'll get rid of too much load.
We just didn't expect our little project to get that much attention.
- rartichoke 13y agoWas it Bluehost? I've heard stories of them just instantly shutting down your server without notice when you generated any form of decent traffic.
- crisnoble 13y agoIt was not bluehost.
- dominikjohann 13y agoI refrained from calling them by name and would like to keep it that way, but I can say that it's one of the largest / most popular German hosting companies. (It's probably easy to figure it out via a whois lookup, actually.) Over the course of a couple of years, their service was good and I didn't run into any major problems besides this one. The cutoff was a real bummer (especially with a concept like Impetus), but I have to give them a little credit: seconds after my angry call, the site went back up.
- rartichoke 13y agoAh good call on the whois.