Notes of Chaos 2: The Revengening
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008The original Notes of Chaos met its demise a couple of weeks ago.
It was hosted on a server that, unbeknownst to me, had changed hands a couple of years. It went from my reliable friend Dan to a guy that runs a popular webcomic. Dan had been running the server for this guy, and since the guy generated most of the traffic for the server, he started paying for it and took ownership from Dan.
Recently, some other users’ processes on the server had been bringing it down. The webcomic guy got irritated that these guys that were using his server for free were interfering with his livelihood and didn’t want to figure out whose process it was, so he locked all of the users out. He didn’t give any notice but did later at least send Dan the other users’ files. It was basically an eviction - we were locked out, and our stuff was at the door. He was all EVERYBODY GET OUT NOW THIS IS MY SERVER YOU ARE TAKING FOOD OUT OF MY MOUTH AND I ALREADY STARTED CHEWING IT
It’s understandable, but I’d like to think I wouldn’t do it that way. Who knows, though. Maybe he was losing thousands of dollars a day and couldn’t give people a couple of weeks.