Not sure if anyone else has had this problem. But I run a few web directories.....and I came home yesterday to find my host had cancelled all my accounts (not just directories)....he didn't care when I said I would remove the directories, or I would shut off notifications. Anyways, he said that the directories were spamming and his server got blacklisted. So for the last 15-18 hours I have been trying to get all my websites (and clients websites)...moved and active again. Anyone else ever have this?
Did you have the notifications set up to send a submission confirmation notice? Were you getting spammed heavily? Spammers like to use any address and the recipient(s) may have reported you - especially if someone was spamming all of your directories simultaneously using the same email addresses. There are spam filtering mods available (if you're using phpld) that can stop the automated submissions and make operating your directory less of a chore and possibly keep you from getting cancelled again.
Thanks David, I might be calling for help soon as one is giving a smarty error. but will wait till all are moved and running. Thanks!
I had host gator shut off one account of a customer one time saying they were spamming. The customer actually was responding to a reciprocal link request from the Alexa program. The customer had nothing to do with the this, but there seemed to have been a mistake on host gator's part in recognizing who was at fault. It would still be good to try to request some examples of exactly what they considered to be spam on your part, because hosts can be wrong sometimes.
Hi David, He did show me one of the, and it was just the 'thanks for submitting your link' type....anyways, most of my sites are now moved and most functional thank goodness. A few still need to have the nameservers resolve.....what a pain! But, learned something anyways.
Before I say my thoughts, I must say I think true spammers are uhm, let's just insert some !#$%^^&^ type words. That said, I am so tired of people being offended by every little thing. I've seen several people here on DP blasted for spamming when they were sending out what was IMHO a perfectly reasonable message to present and/or past customers. If someone else was dropping one of my email addresses all over the Internet, I would want to know about it and disable the account or do something to protect my name. Attacking you only fixes a tiny piece of the complainer's problems - so shortsighted. Good luck on the move - I feel your pain as I am doing my own webhost switch this week.