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Nearly killed this website on accident...

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:20 am
by Falco Girgis
So it appears that I almost killed both elysianshadows.com and thechaosrift.com earlier today.

I have a separate account (from Kendall) that the website's monthly payment comes from. I had recently bought Kendall's birthday present off of Ebay, thinking that I still had money in my Paypal account. I find out that I didn't, so the money drew from my account which overdrew. THEN I get the bill for the website which couldn't go through.

I always get a bunch of emails from my host, so I generally skip anything from them. So I didn't read the "Ummm.... you need to pay us email." I finally figured it out when the guys that I purchased the domains from called me up.

...this site was pretty close to being toast until I sorted it out.

Oh, and Kendall's Christmas present was a complete replica Ocarina of Time along with song book (she can now play every temple).

Re: Nearly killed this website on accident...

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:39 am
by Pipjim
GyroVorbis wrote: (she can now play every temple).
Nice.

Re: Nearly killed this website on accident...

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:30 pm
by thbp
wow umm liek the flute thing?

Re: Nearly killed this website on accident...

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:12 pm
by lotios611
That would of sucked. Out of curiosity, do you have backups of the forums?

Re: Nearly killed this website on accident...

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:06 pm
by dandymcgee
lotios611 wrote:That would of sucked. Out of curiosity, do you have backups of the forums?
I'm pretty sure he meant the domain names were almost toast, not the actual content. ;)

Re: Nearly killed this website on accident...

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:56 pm
by M_D_K
So, I was nearly out of a job then?

Re: Nearly killed this website on accident...

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:17 pm
by Singleton
Whoah that's pretty nasty... How much time did you have?
(And nice gift :))

Re: Nearly killed this website on accident...

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:25 pm
by Falco Girgis
dandymcgee wrote:
lotios611 wrote:That would of sucked. Out of curiosity, do you have backups of the forums?
I'm pretty sure he meant the domain names were almost toast, not the actual content. ;)
Actually, no. Both were almost toast. We're hosted through 1&1 who also handles our domain name registration and such with another company. When the bill came it was for two parts--one for the actual web hosting and one for the domain names. Both of them didn't go through.

And no, I don't have any really recent forum dumps, although I should probably do that sometime soon just in case...
MDK wrote:So, I was nearly out of a job then?
Yes.
Singleton wrote:Whoah that's pretty nasty... How much time did you have?
I'm not sure, but apparently enough time has elapsed that they threatened to send my debt to a loan shark.

Re: Nearly killed this website on accident...

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:42 am
by dandymcgee
GyroVorbis wrote:
dandymcgee wrote:
lotios611 wrote:That would of sucked. Out of curiosity, do you have backups of the forums?
I'm pretty sure he meant the domain names were almost toast, not the actual content. ;)
Actually, no. Both were almost toast. We're hosted through 1&1 who also handles our domain name registration and such with another company. When the bill came it was for two parts--one for the actual web hosting and one for the domain names. Both of them didn't go through.

And no, I don't have any really recent forum dumps, although I should probably do that sometime soon just in case...
Oh damn.. You should probably get on that. :shock:

Had I woken up to find out that this site was no more, I may have cried.