Mafiascum Suspended and Disabled?

Oh no! What’s going on? mafiascum.net now shows a “this domain has been disabled” message (although it talks about mithmojo.net, it’s presumably on the same hosting account as mafiascum.net. That guy sure likes his .nets…)

I would think all of us who play mafia games on there are used to the CPU usage exceeded messages that are pretty common — I can’t even begin to imagine how badly mafiascum’s huge phpBB database is killing what appears to be a shared hosting account; in fact, I’m surprised he’s even allowed to run such a huge forum on shared web hosting. I would have expected that the site would be well beyond the level where you’d need at least a VPS, if not a dedicated server just for the forum.

But now, this is a new message. The domain is disabled. This message has also been up for quite a while, much longer than the typical CPU usage exceeded messages. Any theories? DHS and/or the FBI had enough about all the talk of killings and lynchings and serial killers? The real mafia was tired of the competition? The world may never know…

Or maybe it’ll be back up in a few minutes and nobody will ever remember the great outage of January 2009. If I was a gambling man, I’d bet that he’s being forced to move to a VPS or dedicated box, and it might be down for another 24-48 hours until that gets set up. You’d think somebody, somewhere would know, but various searches aren’t turning up anything related.

UPDATE (thanks Phate): mith posted on The Grey Labyrinth with an update, that shouldn’t be a big surprise to anyone…

Bad news: bluehost has suspended us again because we’re hitting the server too hard.

The not so bad news: It is likely just a result of them being crap and us needing to move to a better host, and having just sent my thesis to my supervisors last night for a final review before I submit, I will have some free time this week to move us. Hopefully, we’ll be back up and running before too long.

I really think Mafia Scum is too big of a forum to be on shared hosting, but I wish him luck. Oh, and vote mith. So there.

Update 2:

Ok, step 1 done, I have purchased an account on KnownHost’s VPS XL plan. Waiting for them to set things up (shouldn’t be long), and then I’ll work on getting something up there for people to post on.

Still working on getting bluehost to reactivate the account so that people can see the dontpanic page.

Oh good, not shared hosting. I hope they didn’t have a VPS before that Bluehost kept giving them crap about, although now that I think about it, the CPU usage exceeded message that was so common does sound more VPSish than shared.

Update 3: Here’s an alternate link to the new site while DNS changes are propagating.