My dedicated server has been taken offline at around 11 AM yesterday because of the multiple spam complaints received by the hosting provider.

Here is what happened. One of my sites llfk.com is a short url redirection service that allows anyone turning their long urls into short ones (pretty much like tinyurl.com). Someone (I actually know who but will not be posting any names and web site urls here) used the service to create short url and used in in mass mailing.

So, after around 40 SPAM complaints, my server IP addresses were blocked by the ISP and it took more than 24 hours to get out of the mess and lift the ban.

I am very angry at what happened and most likely remove the short url redirection service from llfk.com. I am not making enough money from that service anyway.

Nikolai

1. Hah yeah had that a couple of times before, i try to span my sites across multiple servers, keeping the controversial sites away from mainstream sites.

   It’s not so much a case of, your site is controversial , but it could be used maliciously, sites like that were its very user defined is best to keep away from anything else that really needs 100% uptime.

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   Posted by todd from talking dynamics | March 28, 2008, 11:12 pm

2. Sorry to hear about that. I have no idea how to set up a redirect service, but it sucks the hosting company penalized you for what someone else did. At least you’re not loosing much money I guess.

   Posted by web hosting sleuth | February 8, 2009, 5:35 pm

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4. Please, can you PM me and tell me few more thinks about this, I am really fan of your blog…gets solved properly asap.

   Posted by Personalised Gift | April 4, 2009, 12:29 am