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Oh, great. Now not only was the splash page for AL hacked, but the rest of the site - on another host! - has been suspended. WTF? This is so discouraging. First the computer dying, then all this mess, I feel like I should probably just give up.

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Well, I guess AL is toast.

Here's an exerpt from what Jen, my host's owner, sent me. (And what a wonderful person she is, to answer me literally within minutes, at this hour of the day!) ~
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....At this point, the site really can't be on a shared host.

[here she gave me some figures on my usage]....in other words, you use 1 Gigabyte of memory on average per day for your site.

....Because the server's been running ok, and we had a special deal, I let it go - but this is not new. These images are being remotely loaded from all over the Internet, the site is attacked once every ten seconds, and your site alone needs 1 Gigabyte of memory all on its own each day - the site needs to be on a very robust VPS, or a Dedicated server. The resource usage has gotten so out of control that its taken down apache 3 times in the past 48 hours, and it was suspended - even suspending it, however, didn't stop the issues, as your images were being remotely loaded from so many places the hits on the server continued we had to terminate the account just to get the server to come back into normal operating parameters.

...in my opinion, this site cannot be housed on a shared server due to its resource usage.
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Since I don't have a dedicated server - and wouldn't know how to protect one or what to do with one if I had it - I really don't think I have a choice. I think I'm going to have to end AL now, just after its 10th anniversary.

It's breaking my heart.