• Why are your websites down?

    by  • October 21, 2011 • FAQ • 1 Comment

    This is the message that greeted me when I woke up this morning. My ‘main’ website when I signed up to Bluehost was historyshareforum.com, hence the reference to it below.

    I have no idea which of the Terms of Service I am supposed to have ‘violated’. I’m currently looking for a way to transfer my sites elsewhere as this isn’t the first time this has happened. :-/

    Forwarded message:

    From: support@bluehost.com
    To: [redacted]
    Date: Thursday, 20 October 2011 22:25:37
    Subject: Web hosting account deactivated for HISTORYSHAREFORUM.COM

    Dear Doug:

    Your web hosting account for historyshareforum.com has been deactivated, as of 10/20/2011. (reason: site causing performance problems)

    This deactivation was due to a Terms of Service violation associated with your account. At sign-up, all users state that they have read through, understand, and agree to our terms. These terms are legal and binding.

    Although your web site has been suspended, your data may still be available for up to 15 days from the date of deactivation; if you do not contact us during that 15 day period, your account and all of its files, databases, and emails may be deleted.

    If you feel this deactivation was made in error, or in order to gain access to your account, please call our customer service line as soon as possible at (888) 401-4678 and press 5 to speak with a member of our Terms of Service Compliance department.
    Please read the following, derived from our Terms of Service agreement, for additional information regarding the matter.

    Engaging in any activity that, in BlueHost.com‘s sole and absolute discretion, disrupts, interferes with, or is harmful to (or threatens to disrupt, interfere with, or be harmful to) BlueHost.com‘s services, BlueHost.com‘s business, operations, reputation, goodwill, subscribers and/or subscriber relations, or the ability of BlueHost.com‘s subscribers to effectively use BlueHost.com‘s services is prohibited.

    Please review the current copy of our Terms of Service here:
    http://www.bluehost.com/cgi/terms

    Thank you,
    BlueHost.com Technical Support
    http://www.bluehost.com
    For support go to http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/
    Toll-Free: (888) 401-4678 Option 2

    About

    Dr. Doug Belshaw is Badges & Skills Lead at the Mozilla Foundation. More about him can be found at his About.me page.

    One Response to Why are your websites down?

    1. dave cormier
      October 21, 2011 at 11:44 am

      Bluehost is the reason i learned to use my own server.

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