| First, I want to thank DBA2 for assisting with the situation while I was away today.
Second, understand that outages with the board, while rare, are considered a dire issue with me.
For this reason, we have the board prepaid by automatic withdrawel using Paypal subscription service. Therefore, the board should continue to run long after I stop breathing.
I was very upset when I received the call that the board was down, knowing that; a) the bill is paid, and b) I have received no prior contact from the host indicating any problems or violations.
As it turned out, They did send us an email after they pulled the plug (a lot of good that does).
Here is what happened: Our host only allows us to use, at peak, 25% of the CPU time on the server. This is because there are multiple domains run on each server. Any more usage than 25% peak could affect other customers. One of our scripts, the one that checks for mail, was stuck in a loop, causing the server to become saturated. This is not the first time this has happened with the vbms_checkmail.php cron-job. This is however the first time it has happened while I was away, unable to fix it for a long period of time. Since the host saw it, they flipped the switch on us.
For the reasons listed, the plugin has remained in beta status for over a year. We thought we had it tweaked enough to call it usable. Since this plugin has become a continued problem, I have decided to pull the plug on it. It's not worth having the board go down again.
Those of you that had POP mail accounts prior to this plugin can have them back, just PM me with your requested email and password info and I will set it up for you.
Thanks again for your understanding!
DBA1  |