Bendzg.com Down

Paranoia, anger and uncertainty... the perfect mix of emotion to start a day.

I was on my way to school when I dropped by the cafe to print an academic paper when I learned that my site, bendzg.com was suspended by my host, Holdfire. Not expecting that such will happen cause my bandwidth limit is just about 10%, I desperately checked on my hosting client to know if I did something that contradicts the Terms of Agreement. Luckily, there was none (based on my own interpretation, by the way).

Searching through the knowledge base looking for clues, I stumbled on a knowledge article about getting suspended when the bandwidth exceeds and that I need to wait for another month for it to be reactivated which of course is not an option considering the potential losses I could incur. I found it odd since according to my bandwidth stat, I only used 10% of it.

Looking for clues beyond the proverbial box, I went to my Adsense statistics and found that I earned 8 dollars just for yesterday and I got more than 17,000 page views(not including those with ad blockers). Then it all came to me. I turned off my Super Cache plug-in.

I never thought it would be useful for me since I just enjoy steady traffic of about 3,000 per day. I realized that the spike in the traffic sent a lot of red flags to my shared hosting plan.

I'm still waiting for official statement on the matter from my host though and I think I will have to wait for 20 more hours before I get that. I wish it's just a simple case of bandwidth spike and nothing more.

If only I did not post the results for the September 2008 LET. This would not have happened. But then again, it's always good to learn lessons out of mistakes and I didn't mean posting a traffic generating post.

Expect me to be here more often as I plan to post more updates related to Cheats, hacks, and walkthroughs and tutorials on Crazy Cart, Cabal, Tantra, WOW and other online games.