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July 14, 2006
Instalanche violates terms of service? Huh?
Unless Arin.net gave me a false reading, it looks like this ISP took down a site run by a blogger called "snarkybastards.com" (70.84.99.146 -- and cached here) because Glenn Reynolds linked to him! According to Glenn, that's what his email says: I got this email:It's not censorship, but I read through their "Terms of Service" pretty carefully, and I couldn't find a word about Glenn Reynolds, or Instalanches, anything like that. Not even a limitation on incoming traffic. Just the usual recitals about prohibited content and network abuse. (Spamming, kiddie porn, stuff like that.)This morning you linked to a post by Conor Friedersdorf defending you against Andrew Sullivan. I run the site, snarkybastards.com, and the no-talent [censored] who evidently run my server have decided that the traffic generated by your link violates my terms of service. I must therefore ask you to delink so that they will restore service long enough for me to retrieve my blog and move it elsewhere."No-talent [censored]" is a bit strong (it's my "censorship," not his!) but what kind of hosting service kills your site when it gets noticed? A lousy one, I guess. Might something else be going on? (Hope this isn't a trend . . .) UPDATE: Problem solved. Snarky Bastard is back up, with a great post about Glenn's right wing extremism! posted by Eric on 07.14.06 at 11:50 AM
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Maybe so. But they're not going to get much blog business, I'd say. (With 40 million blogs, they're cutting themselves out of an ever-growing market, too.) You'd think they could at least send out an email giving the guy a chance to pay the additional fees, or upgrade, or something. Eric Scheie · July 14, 2006 10:44 PM Eric-- Thank you for the link. Over at SB, we had quite an e-mail discussion yesterday. Apollo, our webmaster guy whom Instapundit quoted, is getting ready to shift servers, since our current one is the Glenn Greenwald of servers. Call it capitalism in action. Hubbard · July 15, 2006 06:51 AM Thanks for the concern. As you noted, things are running smoothly again, on a new host. For jmr, we never came close to using our alloted bandwidth, so it was rather inexplicable. At any rate, it's all bygones now. Capitalism in action, and the wonders of the web. Apollo Morgan · July 16, 2006 06:06 PM |
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That's called a cheap hosting provider, who probably has metered bandwidth. You suddenly started using more bandwidth than you were paying for.