avoid at all cost what happenned to vbcredits.com
ok, the situation is pathetic… they are hosted in a minimal classic setup, a single dedicated server. what is pathetic? they got a deal, long time ago, where they had good host at low cost. that means all the time that the host can decide to raise the package cost or close the hosting due to over-usage of bandwidth…
that’s what they got yesterday. it’s beed 3 weeks since they were noticed by their host that they have to move the site to some other big service… they took the advice too slow and they were closed without further notice because their service is too big… checking licenses, load of guest visitors, etc…
i have nothing about the host, they had to choose a bigger one. what i hate is the gadgets vbcredits.com use for license checking… expandable and over-use of callback, this is pathetic.
their license check is daily, one when you enter the admincp, the other in the daily cron. you can not avoid it as the engine is encrypted and do not work without these files. i talk about vbCommerce here, as vbCredit is not encrypted yet.
so they have a solid licenser… John was proud of it, and i told him that it would cause a lot of trafic and troubles… so there it is, their site is down, nobody can use their vbCommerce in the last 2 weeks, because they can not check their license, so a ton of sites are dependable to their own…
i NEVER want a crap like that.