I was right! - 10 years in review of the Standard Hosting Request Format

[Trel]

After joining FreeWebspace.net over 10 years ago, I saw that the site was having problems with webhosting requests because new members weren't familiar enough with the community. While discussing it with other providers around at the time, we came up with the Standard Hosting Request Format. This lead to a great deal of backlash from the community to the point we were almost banned.

Now, years later we have this: http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/forms.php?do=form&fid=2

In conclusion, I was right. :lol:

 

[sander k]

Lol, maybe now is the time to make one for the offers as well?

That might prevent some spam.

 

[Trel]

Not me! I'm done with all that. I was just searching through old posts and ran across it.

 

[Seraphim]

Too little, too late.

Move along, there's nothing here but memories and spambots.

Soon as I redo my signup with better antispam measures I'll start posting offers again, but what can one man do against an army of bots.

 

[Trel]

This site still gets a lot of traffic. You'd be surprised once analytics gets a crack at it, but we get a lot of traffic without even launching.

You can also put a lid on spam with vBulletin 4.x. The key is to use hard to break captchas like https://www.keycaptcha.com/ along with anti-robotic plugins like the http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=248042

 

[fsd]

Predict the future for 10 years from now!


But anyway I really wish this place would pick back up