Originally Posted by
spherical
Checking in from the
Web Hosting Talk community. This whole shebang rings loudly for the web hosting industry. We deal with people like this every day, trying to steal services and not paying for bandwidth, etc. Full support to the guys at the shop and their families as they deal with this mess. Truly hope it works out for them in the end.
Kudos to the TR staff and their host/DC for the excellent service. You should certainly give them a shout out for their great uptime and stellar servers! Also high five to the admins here for keeping things interesting despite the epic-osity of this thread.
Thanks
We host locally here in Tampa, we own the hardware, a DL380 for a DB box, and a slightly smaller generic 1U Dual CPU box for the web server... web server is by far the most taxed, in fact we are shopping for a new dual quad for the front right now.. we host TampaRacing.com and TampaForums.com on the same box (infact they share the same user database) .. and we are upgrading both soon and addding a bunch of new stuff, plus some new sites.. so the new box will def be needed.
Took a lot of tweaking to get the web server to handle the load..it gets slow.. but it keeps on chugging.. we've been hit with a few progressive "massive traffic" loads recently.. can't wait to see the bandwidth overage from this.. lol
I have removed a bunch of useless crap from the last few pages to get rid of some TRama, threats and post whoring. This thread is by far the most work i've had to do to keep something alive and on track in my 8 years as an admin.
Cha0tic, question for you. I see your rushing to make a bunch of money from this, putting up the site that originally linked to this thread and now has advertising on it, creating TShirts and pimping it out.. why do we need your site and the japworks site for updates?.. where is your money going ?.. just curious as you seem to be trying to cash in on this any way you can.