September 23, 2007
Sorry that the site has been down for so long
I apologize that Silver Fingernails has been down for almost three weeks now. It seems that someone must have really loved some images from this site, because over a period of several days, they were hotlinked on hundreds of different Chinese websites and forums.
Everytime a photo is viewed on one of those sites, it is requested from OUR host’s server. We were suddenly getting hundreds of thousands of hits from computers all over China requesting these images at an unbelievable rate. I blocked image hotlinking on this site, but there were still so many hits coming at once, that it crashed the server and our host had no choice but to temporarily disable the site.
Even now, after several weeks of being down, we’re still getting bombarded with image requests! Lets hope it has died down enough that the site can stay up for good. But if you see the site down again, you know the reason why. Sorry for the trouble!
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