May 11, 2009 by sharky
Back on April 28th, ThePirateSociety teamed up with FSF to offer open registration - in which more than 1,200 new members joined the site. As bad luck would have it, at the same time TPS ran into an issue with their hosting provider ServerBeach who deemed the popular torrent forum to be against their ToS. Heaven forbid a site be allowed to discuss piracy & torrents (but not actually link to them). After nearly a week of downtime; indeed TPS now had some major scrambling to do in order to find another host for the site - and in the meanwhile all new members who registered during the promotion have been wiped out. (We’ve got the whole story.)
In any event, TPS is now again open for registration to those who previously signed up, as well as anyone else looking to get in on the torrent discussion action:
• http://www.thepiratesociety.org/register.php
Here’s What Happened:
On May 1st Serverbeach put our account under ‘investigation’ and disabled us because they don’t support ‘tracker type’ websites. This of course was bullshit and we were already upset with the performance of the server, so instead of waiting for this investigation to end (still hasn’t btw 5/11) we decided to grab a new server from a different provider.
When we ordered the server the company put us on back order because they had to wait for their hardware provider to give them their supplies, so that took a lot longer than expected.
Passwords were not compromised and the site is still secure. being disabled was a real shocker to us and quite unexpected so we werent exactly setup to transfer over to an entirely new server, but we did the best we could in shortest amount of time. just be glad TPS is back up and running.
And finally, the backup we had to install was from April 28th. this was before open sign ups so all those new users…gone. but the doors are currently open (5/11) to allow those users another chance to hop back in.
Please feel free to leave ServerBeach bad feedback wherever possible.
TPS Staff