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Dear Members,
As you have probably noticed, the past month has not been a very stable one, in terms of the uptime and reliability. I apologize for this. Here's what has happened...
Last month we switched to a new Hosting company, called www.l40.net, this is when the trouble began. The reason for the switch was due to an upgrade being performed at the data center that houses my server. So I decided in the meantime to simply move the site to a hosting company. This is when all the problems arose. www.L40.net has been nothing but a headache, nothing but problems. Tonight I went to visit CP, and received an error that the site has been suspended. I goto check my email, and I have the following email sitting in my box:
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Your domain cigarpass.com has been suspended for several violations:
Your sites CPU usage has exceeded large amounts of Loads during long
sustained periods.
You also have nude pictures on your website.
You are allowing questionable behavior on your forums (ie. cursing,
sending "fecal" packages to others, etc.)
Please do not reply to this email. You must submit a trouble-ticket
in the Client Area with your solution to this problem so you can have
your site re-enabled.
Thank you for your cooperation in the matter.
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L40.net Web Hosting
Support Services
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By the way, when the hell did we start sending "fecal" packages to each other? The definition of "fecal" according to Webster is:
fecal
\Fe"cal\, a. [Cf. F. f['e]cal. See Feces.] relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; f[ae]cal.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
fecal
adj : foul with waste matter [syn: feculent]
This is clearly no way to run a business. I have been with MANY hosting company's, and never have I encountered such behavior. What happened to the warning before they take down a site? No courtosy what so ever.
Luckily I was able to recover a backup of CP from last month (just before the move). That is what we are now running off of. Unfortunately, we lost about 1 month of forum data. It could have been worse, we could have lost 4 years of information, but we didn't.
CP is now back home in our own datacenter. The speed should have increased incredibly. Unfortunately, if you joined within the past 30 days, you will need to rejoin again.
I do promise to bring many more features to the site very soon. We will first start with the Chat Room and begin having regular chats again, and go from there.
The company that took CP offline is www.L40.net. If you wish to voice your displeasure to them, go for it. Their email address is Support@L40.net
Again, I apologize for the downtime and lost data. At least we are back on a FAST and RELIABLE server.
Kind Regards,
Rod Linsalato
Administrator
As you have probably noticed, the past month has not been a very stable one, in terms of the uptime and reliability. I apologize for this. Here's what has happened...
Last month we switched to a new Hosting company, called www.l40.net, this is when the trouble began. The reason for the switch was due to an upgrade being performed at the data center that houses my server. So I decided in the meantime to simply move the site to a hosting company. This is when all the problems arose. www.L40.net has been nothing but a headache, nothing but problems. Tonight I went to visit CP, and received an error that the site has been suspended. I goto check my email, and I have the following email sitting in my box:
-------------------------------------
Your domain cigarpass.com has been suspended for several violations:
Your sites CPU usage has exceeded large amounts of Loads during long
sustained periods.
You also have nude pictures on your website.
You are allowing questionable behavior on your forums (ie. cursing,
sending "fecal" packages to others, etc.)
Please do not reply to this email. You must submit a trouble-ticket
in the Client Area with your solution to this problem so you can have
your site re-enabled.
Thank you for your cooperation in the matter.
--
L40.net Web Hosting
Support Services
-------------------------------------
By the way, when the hell did we start sending "fecal" packages to each other? The definition of "fecal" according to Webster is:
fecal
\Fe"cal\, a. [Cf. F. f['e]cal. See Feces.] relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; f[ae]cal.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
fecal
adj : foul with waste matter [syn: feculent]
This is clearly no way to run a business. I have been with MANY hosting company's, and never have I encountered such behavior. What happened to the warning before they take down a site? No courtosy what so ever.
Luckily I was able to recover a backup of CP from last month (just before the move). That is what we are now running off of. Unfortunately, we lost about 1 month of forum data. It could have been worse, we could have lost 4 years of information, but we didn't.
CP is now back home in our own datacenter. The speed should have increased incredibly. Unfortunately, if you joined within the past 30 days, you will need to rejoin again.
I do promise to bring many more features to the site very soon. We will first start with the Chat Room and begin having regular chats again, and go from there.
The company that took CP offline is www.L40.net. If you wish to voice your displeasure to them, go for it. Their email address is Support@L40.net
Again, I apologize for the downtime and lost data. At least we are back on a FAST and RELIABLE server.
Kind Regards,
Rod Linsalato
Administrator