Hi All,
Here is the situation,
I am told that if I do not upgrade again for the THIRD time this month, I will be offline by close of play tonight.
I have also had many people offer to cover or offer to willingly contribute towards the £150 per month package that I’m told is needed to keep me going.
Never the less, whilst that is extremely generous, I dont see why people should have to pay for something that even I, as a computer savy retard can see shouldn’t have to be paid.
Let me explain.
This month, visits to this site are going to be somewhere around the 400,000 mark.
To keep the site online to accommodate that figure I have had to upgrade TWICE this month already, taking me from 350 gb per month to first; 750 gb per month and then, 1000 gb per month – which I am now told will still not be enough to keep me on-line till the end of the month.
That means the site will be inaccessible until November the 1st when the monthly gb allowance is again set to nought, as it is every month… Unless of course, I agree to paying the £150 per month package.
Now, compare this months projected viewing figure to April, May and June of this year where for those 3 months running I had more visits each month than I will have this month – the highest (April) was over 507,000.
Yet those 3 months were all managed on a 350 gb allowance with no threats of going over that limit.
And as such, you don’t need to be a tech wizard to work out that the problem isn’t the amount of visits that the site attracts.
Therefore, there has to be another problem.
So far this month I have thrown £600 at the problem to keep the site on-line and I am not prepared to throw any more at it especially not to the tune of £150 per month or £1800 per year when it shouldn’t be necessary to do so… Regardless of whether that money is mine or yours.
I haven’t a fucking clue what the problem is and without wishing to be unkind to Gary – the site looks the bollocks – neither has he.
Therefore, I have to have the right people around me to keep this site going.
I am under enormous pressure as it is and I cannot afford to be getting bogged down with the technical side of things of which I have no understanding what so ever.
By enormous pressure, I mean that it is blatantly obvious that I now have the full attention of TPTB.
Course, that has always been my full intention ever since it became apparent to me that people were taking notice of what I write, but in order to take the cunts on, I need people who are on top of their game covering me.
And that means a tech wizard who can FIX the problems, as opposed to DEFLECT the problems by me throwing money around.
If I havent got the right people covering my back, then I see no point in carrying on with the site because they will crush me as easy as they would swat a fly.
It is obvious that the problem with the gb is coming from a very sophisticated, government generated attack – most likely a “denial of service”.
Never the less whatever the attack is, it needs fixing not thwarting with short term expensive defensive measures.
TPTB are also using the tactic of threatening 123-reg (I think they are my service provider but I cant be sure) with legal action because of my articles content.
This means that in turn, 123-reg blackmail me with the order to remove the articles or they will remove me meaning that the site is again off-line if I don’t comply.
Clearly that is unacceptable and I need someone to sort me out a host – or whatever 123-reg are – who are not going to blackmail me.
Once again, I see no point in spending hour upon hours writing articles that are not going to see the light of day.
I mean, I am happy for them to drag me into court, but they wont do that, and in fact they have no need when they can bog me down with technical and host problems.
If that isn’t enough to make me go bald when I have enough on my plate already, I now have the Detective Chief Inspector from Essex Police writing to me, requesting the pleasure of my company to “discuss the contents of my website”.
The letter carry’s a threat of alternative action should I not meet him and comply.
The fact that I get approached by a DCI requesting a meeting as opposed to being dragged down the cop shop by a couple of bods in uniform speaks volumes and to me suggests that the police are unsure of their territory.
In fact, I know they are by the very fact that a couple of bods in uniform haven’t kicked my door in and dragged my arse down to the station.
Moreover the absence of any quoted laws in the letter re-enforces my belief.
Any attempt to remove content from my website will be opposed by myself, but if they are able to do it without dragging my arse into court or they are able to do it by taking me offline via attack then to be frank, I see no point in spending countless hours writing articles in the first place.
I do have a fella with legal training looking at this matter but it could well be a case that I need someone with vastly more experience to help me as the pressure is cranked up.
But one problem at a time for now.
I cannot attack a huge, extremely powerful machine if I do not have solid back up.
Neither do I see the point in putting myself in grave danger if I do not have a solid safe haven to fall back on.
Now, I appreciate that people mean well, but there is no point in contacting me to suggest that I try this and that to fix the problem.
I need someone who can fix the problem to tell me to fuck off out of the way and get on with the writing while they go about the job of ensuring the site continues.
Fuck me, once the immediate problems are sorted the tech side runs itself anyway, so I am not asking for a major commitment here. Moreover, anyone who does throw his/her hat in with me is not in any real danger.
It is only me and my family who shoulder that burden.
After all, it would be pointless bumping off someone who can in theory be instantly replaced.
Therefore, if no tech support is forthcoming before this site goes offline, I’m afraid it will stay that way, and I will go back to tattooing and content myself with sending articles written at my leisure to other sites for them to publish, should they deem fit.
With this being the case, I see no point either in updating this site further until the right tech support is on hand.
Chris
www.chrisspivey.co.uk/site-update/ 
will take care of it. 
