[MatthewPapa]

GW is temporarily down......

Hmm....now this is strange.  I seem to have exceeded my bandwidth limit of 200 GB. Thats impossible i say because last time I checked (6 hours ago) it said I had only used 110 GB....so unless 90 GB worth of stuff (freespace ISO's etc) were downloaded in that like 6 hour period....wait....thats almost impossible. Someone must have posted that link to the ISO files in a REALLY active forum in order for me to get usage like that or there is something fishy going on with my host.  I have emailed them with my problem and am currently awaiting a response. It shouldnt take that long......geez i sure hope I dont owe a bunch of money.

Bottom line... GW will be back up and running as soon as humanly possible.

[DaBrain]

This is bad. I really hope this was some kind of error.

[MatthewPapa]

Should be back up soon although at this point it looks like I am gonna owe some money even know its THEIR fault. In my prefefences I set it so my account would cut off at 150GB of bandwidth usage....but it didnt.....

[DZComposer]

Oh no! This is bad...

Hosting multiple ISOs is dangerous. Perhaps you could Bit Torrent them?

Do you have access to your access logs? If so, you can see if there were a helluvalot of hits to the ISOs. Also, you can see if hits to other stuff was the cause as well.

Though this does sound fishy....

Who's the host, BTW?

[Fury]

Hmh. If there is interest, maybe I could host them on www.tbp-bt.com.
And because the game is considered abandonware, there shouldn't be legal issues with it.

[MatthewPapa]

There is interest all right, i can guarantee that. Perhaps too much for me though because any download that use 90 GB of bandwidth in as little as 4 hours is crazy.

UPDATE: Site should be back up later today allthough I have removed all of the downloads from the site until the next billing cycle so it will minimize the amount of extra $$ I have to fork over. Right now I am working with billing support trying to convince them that its their fault that they diddnt put the bandwidth limit on in time thus causing the bandwidth usage to go exponentially off the chart. I feel though that they are going to blame it all on me so I am prepared for the worst.

[AqueousShadow]

At least I know the site didn't get blown up by Andross.

[MatthewPapa]

Yea, the data is A OK but this bandwidth is absolutely bull****.

[Jonathan_S47]

Originally posted by AqueousShadow
At least I know the site didn't get blown up by Andross.

Or the Shivans.

[DaBrain]

If they really blame it on you I'd like to donate a small amount.

[Fury]

Well, FS2 torrent is available.
http://www.tbp-bt.com/

[MatthewPapa]

If they really blame it on you I'd like to donate a small amount.

Thanks for your support. I think I will be able to manage all right with what $$$ I have.  The gesture is much appreciated though.

I am going to take measures to make sure this never happens again....  I am sorry to say to all of those out there that downloads of the Freespace 2 ISO's will be discontinued for quite a while..... I am hoping to have the site back up in 4-5 hours.

[MatthewPapa]

We are back....at the cost of 1$/ GB. Keep the downloading of large files to a minimum please and bandwidth usage for the rest of the month shouldnt exceed 2-3GB.

[Taristin]

You really went through 90 GB in 6 hours?

[ShadowWolf_IH]

holy crap.  maybe you need to once again institute the wait to dl it?

[MatthewPapa]

Apparently someone posted the links to the Freespace ISO's that I am hosting on a really active board (according to my logs). Massive downloading ensued. This screwed me over real bad because I had no idea (until it was too late) that my bandwidth was being used at such a fast rate. I was stunned when I logged into my account and saw the usage reports.

http://www.game-warden.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2346#post2346

[Taristin]

Then, yeah, probably best you don't host them anymore. Didn't enough people DL them that you can pull your files and the others can leach ff it?

[MatthewPapa]

From now on I am just going to refer everyone to Mr Fury's torrent alternative. I cant afford (literally) to make a mistake like that again.

[MatthewPapa]

I am taking it offline for a while now. I just received a disturbing email from them. here is a clip from it. it says I owe 75$ extra that I had nothing to do with. I sure as hell aint paying it cause they are charging me for something that I did not use. I am going to work this out some way or another....

The bandwidth usage on your account has exceeded the amount included with
your hosting plan(s).  Yesterday was day 21 of 31 of the
current billing cycle.  A summary of additional charges on your account is
below:

Plan: My Crazy Domain Insane (158105)
- Domain game-warden.com http: cycle to date 298.860 gb, yesterday 74.073 gb
- User matthewpapa: cycle to date 0.001 gb, yesterday 0.000 gb
- User fsna: cycle to date 0.000 gb, yesterday 0.000 gb
- User mercs: cycle to date 0.000 gb, yesterday 0.000 gb
Plan includes 220 gb.
Already charged for 4.788 gb over that, for a total of 124.788 gb paid for.
Total used is now 298.861 gb (165.72% of plan, 78.861 gb over)
New charge added for 74.073 gb @ $1/gb    --> $74.07

Projected usage for the entire billing cycle is 293.557 gb (244.63% of plan)
Projected cost for the additional 94.696 gb @ $1/gb is $94.70.

1 gb (gigabyte) = 1024*1024*1024 (~1 billion) bytes.

Please remember that all balances and transactions at DreamHost are in US
dollars ($USD). As this is the case, all payments must also be made in US
dollars.

To avoid any additional charges to your account, you can temporarily
'shutter' your site until your next billing period begins.

If you would prefer to pay for your excess bandwidth usage, you need not take
any action at this time, and your account will be charged appropriately.

THIS IS BULL****. SQL backups are safe. Nothing will happen to any of our data so thats not to worry....

[ShadowWolf_IH]

well crap.  can we reactivate the old link in the meantime?  freespaceserver.cjb.net?