[Cialug] New hosting solution

[Matt Breitbach]

That wouldn't be something that would be account-closing worthy.  If you had
a gallery that had tons of pictures, and thousands of visitors per day
banging on the server, we'd probably have a chat with you, but even then it
probably wouldn't be an outright closing of the account.

 

Like I stated before, the verbiage is there simply to give us an out when
someone does upload something that is a server killer.  If you try to put a
website on a $1 hosting account that should really have it's own full
server, every customer will complain because the server just got overloaded
because of one website.  We need an out to disable, and if need be, delete
the offending account.  We don't plan on punishing the little guy that blips
the CPU every now and again.  We just want to have a big stick to whack the
real abusers with.

 

-Matt

 

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Afan Pasalic
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:29 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] New hosting solution

 

I have an account at hostmonster.com and I had Gallery2 installed on it. the
Gallery had tons of pictures, over 3GB but number of visitors are in tens a
day. The Gallery was accessible for Family, cousins and some friends. I
think it would be ok with your policy.

Though, to add new images I used the Gallery2 feature: FTP images on the
server in temp directory. Then G2 will take them and make an album. Usually
between 50 and 150 images will be processed. Almost every time after I run
the G2 it will block my account for 5-10 minutes because I used more process
then I'm allowed. But, when I talked to tech support they said if it's ok
with me - it's ok with them too to block me. It was ok with me: better that
way then upload image by image. :-) 

If I "harass" the processor 2-3 times a month because of G2 - would you
close mu account?

Afan




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