Nearly killed this website on accident...

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Nearly killed this website on accident...

Post 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).
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GyroVorbis wrote: (she can now play every temple).
Nice.
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wow umm liek the flute thing?
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That would of sucked. Out of curiosity, do you have backups of the forums?
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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. ;)
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So, I was nearly out of a job then?
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Whoah that's pretty nasty... How much time did you have?
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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...
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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.
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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.
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