Xugle.com: Half a Million Iranians can't be wrong!
Dear Valued customer,
Recently we have noticed that your web site(s)is consuming a disproportionate amount of server resources. Due to this, we have had to move your account off of the shared hosting server to an auxilliary server host. We will now request that you consider purchasing a Managed or Dedicated Server in order to continue hosting services with 1&1 Internet.
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order to improve the quality of service to the rest of our clients on the shared
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were exceeding the capacity of that server to capably host the other accounts,
thus it had to be moved to mitigate the server load. Though we could move your
site back to the original shared hosting server, it is not recommended. Your
account activity has showed that it deserves its own server to better suite its
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or another host provider. You can choose to return your account back to the
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load generated by your websites. If the account has to be moved off the
shared server system again you will only have the option of purchasing a
dedicated server account to continue hosting with 1&1 Internet.Thank you for your compliance in this matter.
This is the Email I received from my Webhoast at 5:47pm EST On 4/7/2006. Naturally, this is not a good thing,so I downloaded the logs from my server. I found that there were thousands of hits coming from Iran To the proxies . These hits ranged from Internet Explorer to Mozilla-style browsers on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. Iran is one of the countries in the world that censors the internet at the national scale. Although I want to help these depribed people, I can’t afford the banwidth so I had to move the proxies to undisclosed locations on the internet. I expect a friendly visit from my Local G-Man any day now, and I will be posting the logs on my server at a later time. I will be posting instructions on how to use the Tor Network in the places where the proxies used to be.
Hopefully, my hoast will take pity on me and not charge me the $10k I owe them in bandwidth. If they do, Iran owes me a college education.
-jX
UPDATE: Yeah… guess what they were surfing. … Yup. Porn.