http://nooooooooooooooo.com/
My heart is sad. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to host my own server and being awesome about it.
And are you absolutely sure that:
- You can't make this a paid service rather than shutting it down?
- You can't have someone else take over the service?
- You can't find any other way to keep this up T-T?
Yes, I could make it paid. However, about 3/4 of the clients are using it
because it is free. I know there are some who would gladly pay, but it would not be enough to make up the cost of the server and we're right back at where we started.
I really do not want to hand over the service to someone else because, quite frankly, there is really no one in the community I would trust to have the maturity and time to keep it going. I know how it would go, I've been associated with the service for so long that if the person I handed it to screwed up, it would reflect back on me, no matter if I'm in the picture or not, since it was known as "my service".
I have thought of many ways I might be able to keep it going, but none of them were satisfactory as they relied too much on something else that was a unreliable variable. Hence the decision to shut it down was made.
its pointing out the fact that the key leak can be contributed to the fact that nobody wants to donate to a service that could be broken into
Anything can be broken into if the person doing the hacking is determined enough. But that's besides the point. Point is I already addressed that issue shortly after the break in happened, I changed the settings so the hole was no longer a problem. I thought I had set them correctly when I first set it up, so I never bothered to double check. Which obviously was a mistake on my part and the incident taught me to be more careful and double check stuff. I know I already mentioned this on this forum at least once.
