Stealthy, baby.
Why in gods name are you even running Swooh?
It's not like you're getting anything out of it (except the hassle of trying to keep it running), and a T1 is pretty damn expensive.
we're not running T1, we're running on Fiber. we were thinking of getting T1 though, but for now Fiber's faster.
Swooh started as a personal server, but with a lot of the members of the community desperate for a place to host images/files/webpages/etc. i decided to buy what was necessary to upgrade Swooh to host outside accounts.
We've had a few problems now and then, but not major ones... Swooh's been down a day or two over the past few months, and this problem we've had is the largest to date, and even that wasn't too big of a deal, since files could still be viewed or downloaded, just users couldn't log in through FTP.
Why are we doing this when we're getting nothing out of it? Because not everyone does something to profit from it. We haven't made a cent on Swooh, and we don't intend to, we're offering our services and our money to keep Swooh running for the benefit and welfare of the community. many people rely on Swooh, and while we don't profit from them, we're more than willing to let them profit from us. We don't get, and don't intend to get anything back from them. it's a service, a free service, of the goodness and kindness of our hearts
True, Swooh's been down once or twice during the last few months, but that's to be expected, and i'll tell you why. We host 150+ "100 MB" accounts, and 20+ "1 GB" accounts. it's hard to monitor everything these people do, and it's happened (most of the times Swooh goes down is becuase of the ISP... Swooh is running Linux and it's system has never given us any problems to date... always ISP problems) now occasionally someone will host a 50 MB popular file/game/movie, and then link to it on a popular site... this means that we get thousands of hits to that file per hour, and obviously we're going to eat up all our bandwidth. people do take advantage of Swooh every now and then like that,
but we're still willing to keep it running to help the community out. you think of the 5 or 6 people that complain about the "poor service" but you overlook the 170 or so that are more than happy with it.
