Maintaining a website like LFSDatabase consumes a lot of personal time and website bandwidth. We can't keep existing without your support. If you would like to keep enjoying the services of LFSDatabase site we ask you to help us. All donations will be spent on paying and maintaining the website. Donating is very easy if you have PayPal. Simply click here or visit the Donate button on the menu on top.

On this page you're able to buy a Pro membership to get special advantages and you're able to donate for the cause of this site. Your name will come on a list (unless you don't want to) to thank you. Don't have PayPal but still want to donate? Feel free to contact us for another way.

In case you can't donate but have cool ideas on how make great use of LFSDatabase during a competition, an event or some league for example you're free to contact me and propose your idea's. I'd like to make you aware we're also on Facebook with our own Facebook page that you can like!

If we reach the goal at the end of this month we will give the site a big overhaul to promise you an even better experience when visiting the site. And we ofcourse will stay existing!

Your help is appreciated.

IMO lfsdatabase.eu is simply the best lfs database site, altough im using it rarely, it is only database what im using for LFS.


I do not agree the site is going to die, Simply a pure good quality database


EDIT: I thinking something about helping

well can you dump average figures of how much is being used and how much is needed to maintain it ?

Do you need someone better to host it? Hosting shouldn't be an excuse for donations these days...

Quote from theirishnoob :

well can you dump average figures of how much is being used and how much is needed to maintain it ?

Need around €20 at the end of this month.

Quote from Mango Juice :

Do you need someone better to host it? Hosting shouldn't be an excuse for donations these days...

Nah, that's not an issue.

What is the issue then? Surely the only thing that's needed is hosting. And you've got a rather expensive host as it is. Not entirely sure why you're doing it this way. Their are better ways of monetizing a website than begging.

On a par with asking someone to buy an S2 license.

However I don't mind helping.

Let me know (via PM if you want) what your monthly bandwidth usages are and I'll assist you in sorting it.

Like I said, the hosting is no problem as it's hosted by birder.

If you have better ideas to monetize the website you're welcome to help me out. My point for making this is also to get some people with me that can help me bring it back to life a little. I don't mind paying for something that is used and people like but I don't want to pay paying for a dead cow, boldly said.

Why do you think lfsdatabase is a dead cow? I thought it was popular enough?

Hi Everyone

Its an age since i used LFS due to lack of development however but i have sponsored lfsdatabase for several years.

I have nothing whatsoever to do with the running of lfsdatabase i just gave them free hosting.

The only thing Bose has ever paid for is the domain and that is only once and i have covered all the other costs.

The bandwidth per month over all my sites is normally about 1250000MB so it was easy to cover the lfsdatabase but the last 2 months no doubt due to hackers, lfsdatabase bandwidth has jumped and is expected to use 742285.98MB of bandwidth this month so the site hosting will be shut down as its out of control.

Bose, if you are reading this, you have my email address to contact me, the site will still be available for ftp so you can move it, but will be deleted in 50 days.

Regards

Colin

This simply is the end of LFS Database then.

surely u can work out something

You can say what you want, but I had to disable it as its hacked, if i dont then I am at risk that all my sites could be disabled. There is over 1000 sites on multiple servers, many have 10 times your visitors but your bandwidth is just off the scale.

I have had a quick look at the site logs, all 30mb of them and you have been well and truly hacked. I doubt its your site thats using all the bandwidth, unless you sell Viagra. By the looks of it you have been banning IP addresses for a while so i am sure you are well aware there was a problem but did not say a word to me.

I ran my hack check script on you site and it get over 2000 suspect files. (It stops at 2000)

It is company policy that any hacked site MUST be disabled, everything on the hosting has to then be removed and mysql databases deleted. Once that is done I can enable it again.

In your case this is simple bandwidth abuse from the site.

To make amends i will give back all the money you ever paid me for hosting over the years.


so that would be a grand total £0, ZERO, nada, nothing, zilch, diddly-squat, ....

So the money I paid (with the help of the community) for two more years for the domain counts as nothing? If you don't want to refund me for the domain I'd like to take it over.

At least have the decency to give me rights to the FTP-server and databases so I can back up my stuff and move.

Quote from Bose321 :

So the money I paid (with the help of the community) for two more years for the domain counts as nothing?

At least have the decency to give me rights to the FTP-server and databases so I can back up my stuff and move.

The domain is still yours, if you tell me where your new hosting will be i will simple move the nameservers to make it live. I personally paid the domain for the first 4 years, i dont even use LFS and made it clear i was not paying for it any more.

and if you read the above you still have ftp access and access to your control panel to get your databases. That will be there for 50 days, after that its simply auto-deleted.

Starting a line with "At least have the decency" really makes me want to help you.

No sure if you understood

YOUR SITE IS HACKED..

So that's why it suddenly gives me an error message that I can't login.

Quote from Bose321 :

So that's why it suddenly gives me an error message that I can't login.

You can login to your control panel and switch on ftp. I have shut off the ftp as it was open for a known hack ip

You need to change your passwords

Scripting (php, cgi) is switched off on your site so you will not be able to log into your site at all.

All anyone will get is

The site lfsdatabase.eu has been disabled. Please contact support.

There is a PM function you know.

I have already asked him to email me

Anyway i am now going offline from this forum and will be back when LFS is updated, maybe 5 years

Bye all

If i have understood this correctly, birder is not the owner of the site, nor involved in it in any way. But his kind and stands up for hosting it for free and paying the domain for 4 years.

And Bose is whining about getting a refund for renewing the domain for additional 2 years? Jesus christ, give me a break! illepall

.eu domain costs ~ $9 / year * 2 = $18 for 2 years.

Even an family sized pizza costs more than that.. What a joke!

Quote from NovaK :

And Bose is whining about getting a refund for renewing the domain for additional 2 years? Jesus christ, give me a break! illepall

You obviously don't get it.

Let me talk in the language you will understand: If you order pizza's for 2 years and you only got your pizza's for a few months, wouldn't you be a little mad for nothing getting the pizza's you paid for?

I have emailed birder so perhaps check your inbox.

How about a thank you for the massive support you had from birder for hosting your site.

You still own the domain name so go and arrange another host.

This is why I charge clients because the most whining comes from those who want everything for free !

Quote from Racer X NZ :

How about a thank you for the massive support you had from birder for hosting your site.

You still own the domain name so go and arrange another host.

This is why I charge clients because the most whining comes from those who want everything for free !

Birder offered it for free so...

Closing this thread upon request by Bose.