BlackTHISOut.com has been BLACKED OUT

[Gage]

http://i.imgur.com/JVUvM.jpg

[Restore America Now]

Oh my...

[sailingaway]

??


Does anyone think we can't have a moneybomb without a pledge page, in any event?

[Sentinelrv]

I already messaged Dusman so please don't spam his inbox. Hopefully he's not taking the night off. I haven't seen him since earlier today.

[Gage]

??


Does anyone think we can't have a moneybomb without a pledge page, in any event?
Not at this point in the game...

[cornell]

This is just starting to really gain some momentum, I saw Facebook attendees was up about to over 5500 today. Hope it can get fixed ASAP.

[MJU1983]

I searched reasons why this might happen:

http://www.noob2geek.com/web-hosting/6-reasons-hosting-account-suspended/

Number 5 could be possible, we've been promotig (spamming some might say) the website on A LOT of sites.

Who knows, I just hope it's back up SOON. :(

[Birdlady]

Another thing is we might have gone over bandwidth. I have no idea what type of web hosting dusman is using.

[trey4sports]

naw, spamming won't do that.

[trey4sports]

Another thing is we might have gone over bandwidth. I have no idea what type of web hosting dusman is using.




Probably hostgator baby croc package lol

[MJU1983]

Another thing is we might have gone over bandwidth. I have no idea what type of web hosting dusman is using.

That, bill payment, or server issues are the most likely. I'm a worst case scenario kind of guy. :)

[Birdlady]

That, bill payment, or server issues are the most likely. I'm a worst case scenario kind of guy. :)

I'm usually that person. Glad someone else is taking on that role this time. lol

[Razmear]

naw, spamming won't do that.
If multiple complaints are filed with the hosting company then they could suspend the account. The requests could be robo-generated or real. Not sure what the issue is, but good luck getting it restored.

eb

[XTreat]

This plus the viagra ads on the Campaign website? are we under attack?

[MJU1983]

Per this post, it looks like it was #4 on the list of reasons (http://www.noob2geek.com/web-hosting/6-reasons-hosting-account-suspended/).

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?316961-Black-This-Out-Want-6-000-000-We-Need-THE-ENTIRE-MONTH-for-Promotion-amp-25-000-Attendees&p=3605159&viewfull=1#post3605159


Yikes. Not sure exactly what happened. Here is the e-mail I got:

During this routine monitoring we have found that your account is utilizing an excessive amount of system resources, and we have been forced to suspend your site as per our terms and conditions '10% CPU/MEM/MySQL Policy'

DDos Attack?

[notsure]

This plus the viagra ads on the Campaign website? are we under attack?
& they haven't come for the forums?

[trey4sports]

If multiple complaints are filed with the hosting company then they could suspend the account. The requests could be robo-generated or real. Not sure what the issue is, but good luck getting it restored.

eb

no, hosting company wouldn't take action like that for something like this. If that were so, all i'd have to do is spam the hell out of my competitors websites and get their hosting companies to shut them down. Just not going to happen.

[AdamT]

Overage on bandwidth?

[Anti Federalist]

Fuck...

[AdamT]

Guessing so many people embedding the signup banner caused the overage?

[RonPaulFever]

This plus the viagra ads on the Campaign website? are we under attack?

huh....what? Viagra ads?

[Gage]

huh....what? Viagra ads?
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?319389-Ron-s-Website-Hacked

[CasualApathy]

http://t.qkme.me/60vb.jpg

[sailingaway]

huh....what? Viagra ads?

a couple people had spyware that acted up when they went onto Ron's site. None of the rest of us saw it.

[Gage]

Down again.



Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

[qwerty]

I will promote then http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181997088537471 , it´s working! ;)

[centure7]

Does anyone know for sure which hosting company hosts the page? I'd like to contact them if possible.

[specsaregood]

a couple people had spyware that acted up when they went onto Ron's site. None of the rest of us saw it.
That is not true, it is appearing on multipl people with different browsers and operating systems. there is certainly a problem.

[Sentinelrv]

Does anyone know for sure which hosting company hosts the page? I'd like to contact them if possible.

Not sure, but the website owner is working on the problem.

[dusman]

Guessing so many people embedding the signup banner caused the overage?

This is what I'm looking into. There was an odd file at the root I've never seen before also. I can't tell if this is generated by the server or not.

The host said that blackthisout.com was taking up 40% of their server resources when they shut it down!

I'm going through step-by-step for each potential thing here. It very well could be that the widgets are overloading the server too, since they are querying the db to get the number of pledges and getting hundreds of thousands of page views.

Will hopefully have it back up within the hour.

[dusman]

http://t.qkme.me/60vb.jpg

Bahaha. I likes this.

[Jeremy]

Probably hostgator baby croc package lolThey have "unlimited" bandwidth.

[dusman]

Nope. I'm using JustHost.

[qwerty]

Nope. I'm using JustHost.

maybe change it...

[Razmear]

It is likely not the host, but a problem with the MySQL scripting. Google MySQL high cpu and you see many similar problems and some good ideas to resolve them.

Good luck getting it fixed.

eb

[Jeremy]

Never heard of them.

[Jeremy]

http://www.justhost.com/pop-unlimited-hosting.php

[dusman]

More likely that there are too many processes running at once. We have widgets out there that are pulling 250k pageviews and interacting with the server at the same time.

[qwerty]

More likely that there are too many processes running at once. We have widgets out there that are pulling 250k pageviews and interacting with the server at the same time.

250k ? WOW!

[RonPaulVolunteer]

They have "unlimited" bandwidth.

Trust me, HostGator does not have unlimited bandwidth no matter what their claims. 6 years ago they shut me down for using to much bandwidth. I now host with SoftLayer, formerly The Planet. Best host in the world, but you can't get a hosting package, you have to lease an entire dedicated server which is what I run Flix on.

[squarepusher]

its a server overload, the 'unlimted' packages are mostly just shared virtual boxes, you aren't allowed to use a significant amount of CPU or anything that makes the CPU do work, other than simploy display web pages. You might have to temporarly upgrade your acct if it allows for more CPU use, or remove things that cause excessive SQL queries


edit: softlayer has cloud servers.

[justinpagewood]

Maybe we do a Chip-In to raise a couple hundred for a dedicated server or something. I'm sure it'll be pretty easy to raise that kind of money for this project. It's going to be huge!

[dusman]

Maybe we do a Chip-In to raise a couple hundred for a dedicated server or something. I'm sure it'll be pretty easy to raise that kind of money for this project. It's going to be huge!

I was just talking to someone else about doing this as well. If we are having this problem now.. then it's going to be even worse moving forward.

Here is the most recent update from the host:

"I am sorry, but your site is very popular. There were more than 1,2 million connections to your site. According to my investigation about 40% visitors came from http://www.ronpaulforums.com/ and http://www.ronpaul.com/ . Your domain name is posted on the home page of this site."

This is the widgets, I'm 80% sure.

On a lighter note... I don't think ANY of our other moneybombs have had this kind of issue. That's a good thing, depending on how you look at it. :)

[devil21]

So it just got shut down for too much bandwidth? That's a good thing, unless its related to the issues over on the campaign website. You're not connected to that site in any way are you? Minimal banners, no direct data pulls, etc, right?

thread title made me LOL btw

[dusman]

So it just got shut down for too much bandwidth? That's a good thing, unless its related to the issues over on the campaign website. You're not connected to that site in any way are you? Minimal banners, no direct data pulls, etc, right?

Not bandwidth issue, but rather too many processes going at once. Currently doing data queries.. but need to cache these moving forward.

[justinpagewood]

I was just talking to someone else about doing this as well. If we are having this problem now.. then it's going to be even worse moving forward.

Here is the most recent update from the host:

"I am sorry, but your site is very popular. There were more than 1,2 million connections to your site. According to my investigation about 40% visitors came from http://www.ronpaulforums.com/ and http://www.ronpaul.com/ . Your domain name is posted on the home page of this site."

This is the widgets, I'm 80% sure.

On a lighter note... I don't think ANY of our other moneybombs have had this kind of issue. That's a good thing, depending on how you look at it. :)

Definitely a great issue to have. And all the more reason to promote minimalism! (Saves on bandwidth).

Do you have a 2nd website you can post a chip-in box at? I'm sure we can raise $200 or so within 24 hours to pay for 1 month of hosting service. You should get a dedicated server rather than a shared server. I can't imagine JustHost having a dedicated server option.

[RonPaulVolunteer]

I can put you on my server for now if you want. I can handle it.

[squarepusher]

sometimes, you can 'up' your CPU allowance for more money from the hosting companies. I'm not sure if this host offers that service though. You will only need the website for a few more weeks, right?

[dusman]

sometimes, you can 'up' your CPU allowance for more money from the hosting companies. I'm not sure if this host offers that service though. You will only need the website for a few more weeks, right?

Well, the problem is is that we were consuming something like 40% of their entire server..

The web site, if it's going to serve widgets to other web sites.. is going to be pushing into the realm of necessity for a dedicated solution.

[RonPaulVolunteer]

Please let me know if you need hosting asap. I want to sleep.

[Esoteric]

If you want to free up bandwith asap, you could just break the code for the widgets.. but why not just hop on to a dedicated server or a beefed up shared server?

[dusman]

If you want to free up bandwith asap, you could just break the code for the widgets.. but why not just hop on to a dedicated server or a beefed up shared server?

Yep, that is hopefully what we are working on now.

[KingRobbStark]

Shouldn't they have warned him if he was starting to get close to the limit?

[Kludge]

Trust me, HostGator does not have unlimited bandwidth no matter what their claims. 6 years ago they shut me down for using to much bandwidth. I now host with SoftLayer, formerly The Planet. Best host in the world, but you can't get a hosting package, you have to lease an entire dedicated server which is what I run Flix on.
Yeah... Most hosts less honest than SoftLayer have "normal use" clauses. You have "unlimited bandwidth" until your use of their resources is so high as to be "abnormal."

Similar to "unlimited bandwidth" cell-phone plans where they dramatically throttle your speeds after you've passed a certain mark. Widespread bullshit marketing.

[beardedlinen]

lol. Refreshing and watching as you update the page Dus. Any reason for that splash screen when loading the page?

[PastaRocket848]

*cough cough* heroku *cough cough*

;)

[reduen]

Wow, this is actually strangely encouraging...! Good morning everyone and have a great EOQ Push Day...!!!!

[dusman]

lol. Refreshing and watching as you update the page Dus. Any reason for that splash screen when loading the page?

lol.

Do you mean the popup? 4% increase in conversion rate, which is pretty significant. :)

[Becker]

ouch, at least its back on now.