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New location for the website

(aka headache 101 ~sweet into sour~ ><)

All right, the official website can now be found at http://heartache101.3eeweb.com/.

The old website was apparently causing problems for bammz' server (the reasons behind which I am still in the dark about; it may have gotten hacked, I dunno; been waiting to hear back from them for several days now) and my account was suspended because of it. If bammz allows me to keep the old website, I probably will. There is no other free web host out there with a more generous php upload limit--necessary for the uploading of custom content--which was the reason I chose them in the first place after "shopping around" for longer than you can imagine. Nearly all free hosts cap php uploads at a measly 2MB. My new host supposedly caps it at 8MB, although I haven't really tested it.

If possible it would be nice to keep *both* websites around, but that'll only happen if I can figure out how to synchronize the databases and custom content uploads, assuming that's even possible. It took me a heap long time to get the database working again on the new site as it is. Anyway, it's not looking good for the bammz site, so probably the new site will be it.

Later, if it turns out that one of my guesses is confirmed about the cause of the problem with the old website being the comments section flooding the server with spam, I'll probably be replacing that module with something different, or perhaps add a full-blown discussion forum with better spam protection, if that's what it takes. This has all been a monumental headache, and it all started happening right when the site was beginning to get publicity, and after I had submitted the link to a couple free game directories. DEATH TO HACKERS AND SPAMMERS

(Apologies for the bad mood I'm in today. It won't last^^)

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I won't pretend to know how those spammers/hackers even found that other site (Never underestimate a hacker/spammer, I guess?), but it sounds pretty bad. Which means that I suspect that the new site will be the one to go to as well. Might visit the original site at random instances, in the odd case that it would return.

Anyway, I was about to ask if you needed help uploading the custom content, but it's like the new site is an exact copy-paste of the old site. It was somewhat surreal!
I had made a backup only a couple days before the site went down; one of the only backups I made, actually. We did have that piece of good fortune.

How they found the site I cannot say, but spam is the bane of anyone who tries to do anything serious on the internet. Spammers these days can defeat captcha pretty easily. There are jobs overseas where all those people do is solve captchas for spam companies.



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