Message from bloglinker.com

Based on my previous post 'No pay No service' , regarding the bloglinker.com here the details why the service is/was temprorarrelly down.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: 9 August 2005 9pm GMT

Dear all, please read this important message about why the site is not working...

Over the past couple of years blogLinker has become very popular, thanks to all of you except the porn spammers and their kind. So popular in fact, that the site started causing data traffic server problems. The hosting company offered to upgrade the server. I accepted their offer, but they basically *completely* fudged the move to the new server.

I won't bore you with the details, but the low-down is this: I have decided to part ways with the current hosting provider and I am currently half way through moving hosting companies. This will hopefully not take more than a couple of days but it explains why the database is down and the service is crappy.

The bad news is that the hosting company deleted the database without informing me or backing up. Clever, I know. Luckily I had taken a backup, although this is 9 days old, but this will have to do for now. I also have the emails of all - even the most recent - members. So those that joined within the last 9 days, will be contacted and asked to re-join..

The good news is that I will be working out a self-policing system to finally get rid of these porn spammers once and for all. Basically, if more than say 20 people hide links to a member, I will automatically suspend that member, simple as that. So members will be forced to think twice before linking to other unrelated members.

I can make the threshold more or less; just let me know your thoughts. Also, if you want a forum/messageboard, I can sort that out as well. Basically, just let me know what you want and I'll try and make it happen.

In the meantime, what can I say - thanks for your patience.

Signing off from sunny Cambridge, UK

Zaeem