Contest Suspended
AjaxLessons.com is currently displaying the following message:
Prior to discovering the “Account Has Been Suspended” message, I received an email from Ajax Lessons informing me that they believed I was cheating in the contest by spamming in order to get entries. I was asked to provide a list of all the locations I was using to refer traffic to Ajax Lessons. I sent an email back insuring the sender that I was not cheating and included the list (a grand total of two sites graced my list). Even after I provided the list, my site was still removed from the statistics page showing the current contestants. I sent an email asking them to return me to the contest, but I have not received any response in several days.
I’m sure the site has just exceeded it’s hosting traffic limit as a result of this fairly clever referrer scheme, but I can’t help but enjoy a little irony for the moment. Just to be clear, I don’t wish Ajax Lessons any ill will, as a matter of fact I hope that it turns out to be a well run site. I was hoping for a chance to win those three books…so far it looks like I won’t be given that chance. Has anyone else experienced a similar circumstance?
Hey, weird coincidence that the site goes down while running a contest? No not really some loser took it upon himself to flood the contest DB resulting in a D.O.S. against my site, my host will not allow the site back up and I am still waiting for my DB files.
Sorry, the site should be back up soon.
Comment on February 17, 2006 @ 9:41 am
[...] Apparently there was a malicious DOS attack on AjaxLessons.com yesterday…but they are back online…and the contest continues. Also, apparently Andrew did answer my question regarding returning my referral stats to the contest page. I missed it because the site was down…but now I see that he did in fact answer me two days ago, *embarrassed*. He has stated that I am still in the contest…and he will return my stats to the page ASAP. I have no idea where I stand in the contest now…after being off the board for almost a week…but I’m very excited about being back in it! [AjaxLessons.com Contest Page] Technorati Tags: AJAX, tutorial, contest, referrals Filed under: javascript, blogging, traffic by Shane | [...]
Pingback on February 17, 2006 @ 11:37 pm
@Andrew: looks like your site is up! By the way, I like the tabbed content demo you just put up!
Comment on February 18, 2006 @ 12:29 pm