if the site gets shut down you know why

[jackulator]

the past few days I've been wrangling with Netfirms -- the company that hosts this site over whether or not they will be 'forced' to shut the site down due to a Terms of Service violation

they're saying that the resources used by this site, namely something called 'database queries' are far too high

since (other than the jackbox) the only thing that generates database queries are these forums, I can't imagine why suddenly they'd be telling me that the database queries are too high

unless people have been using the jackbox WAYY more often than usual I can't think of any reason why the database queries would be any higher than normal

I've requested that they explain themselves, and point out which applications are using 'excessive resources', but so far they're giving me the runaround

at this point I'm really sick and tired of Netfirms and their shitty hosting, and their shitty customer service

for now I've disabled the jackbox (which does generate a shitload of database queries), but I don't know if that's going to decrease the queries enough for them not to shut the site down

figured I'd let you guys know.

in any case, even if the site gets shut down, I'll just start using my youtube account again -- until I can get us hooked up with better hosting

[CallMeBronco]

boy... this host has been a real pain in the ass

I haven't used the jackbox in a long while and that explanation just seems fishy to me but idk.

I hope you can work it out Jack  Should I back up all my stuff?

[Amygdala]

I do think that there has been a lot more interest in the Jackbox recently, but even so, that's ridiculous, I can see if 100s of people are jumping around on it every day, but hell, we're just not that popular...
Also, I just wanted to bring up the fact that, uhh, I can't download anything, everything just comes up as 'index.php', even pictures, but that might just be me.
Suspicious. 

[Amygdala]

Ha, and if the forum stats are accurate, we're getting more new members and page views than ever before, however the new topics and posts are at an all-time low... Weird.   

[Uncle Bingo]

The Jackbox was always dead when I checked in on it. Nowhere near what it was reaching 3 or four years ago, that's for sure. Maybe it's the new media section?

[christiankur2]

Sorry to hear that, could it be hacking attempts? 

Do you have a control panel where you can see the stats of the website?

[cheeseman007]

Could have something to do with the ads that play in the shoutbox? Even though the shoutbox is disabled I still have the ads playing and maybe that is what is taking up the queries?

[CallMeBronco]

maybe it has to do with the fact that there is now the media section as well as the old download section, which means that there's basically a copy of everything there. That would mean there are double the amount of information that has to be stored there?

tell everybody to move there stuff into the appropriate sections or whatever. My stuff u can just delete cause I have a backup of everything on my PC. then just get rid of the old section or at just temporarily turn it off and see if that fixes it.

[buster01]

I thought you had dumped netfirms already. Jesus the bullshit is just neverending with them huh?

[jackulator]

they gave me two IP addresses as the main culprits for excessive bandwidth consumption... turns out it was me and Amygdala that were using too much bandwidth... 

must be all the uploading of the old calls I did to the media section -- I had to upload all the calls like three times in order to get the order right... so that's part of it -- a big part probably.

but I also had to disable the mass upload and mass download features in the new media section -- that made it so that people could use a shitload of bandwidth really fast

kind of sucks though... I'm supposed to have 'unlimited bandwidth' on this fucking account. I don't know where they get off advertising that, and then threatening to close a site down when someone uses 4GB of bandwidth in a month

that's a lot yeah, but it's not an insane amount over the course of a month... for christ's sake... 

[marleycake]

it's good to know the site won't crash 

[jackulator]

yeah they said there are no further issues... which is nice 

[Amygdala]

I figured I might have something to do with it... I did a lot of jumping around here recently, not to mention I downloaded 463 calls within 2 hours (about 2.5gb), I'm sorry, pop! 
So does this mean the Jackbox can come back? Or would that still be a problem?

[jackulator]

I think I could probably turn it back on -- I'll monitor my inbox to see if I get any emails from Netfirms -- just to be certain