As you know, our server has been down since April 9th.
We only had access to the server files on the 27th of April, after a long, intermitted and exhausting communication with our server provider.
We have access on a different I.P., which to us means that there is no Control Panel on the server and, therefore, we have to download everything through FTP and command line, and we are not very confortable in doing it this way which lead to some delays. Additionally there are changes to be made to host and DNS, which causes more delays.
It has been long and it is still a patience game...for everyone.
This however, doesn't affect the databases, and all your accounts will be exactly the same as of the 9th of April as soon as we will go online. All the data are safe.
Apparently the reason that leads to our server being taken down is SPAM. Although we couldn't find our server blacklisted anywhere (check here), this seems to be possible or there wouldn't have been any good reason to give us access on a different I.P..
The idea of having our server blocked for spam again doesn't appeal us at all. We cannot imagine another such nightmare as this one that we (and you) are living.
This is the main reason why we need to make major changes to our scripts in order to drastically reduce the emails that are leaving the server. We need time to make such changes, and we have to do it on more than 20 sites!
Our business have been threatened, and your advertising power zeroed, but we have an idea for reestablishing our Network and make it even stronger; it's called GEM GAIN.
So now we want to make major changes to our scripts
in order to drastically reduce the emails that are leaving the server.
In addition to the current need, some of our websites need improvements, bug fixes or restyling. With our GEM GAIN Project, we aim to dedicate the necessary time to fix the email sending issue on each of our websites while improving them and poviding always more value to GEM GAIN at the same time.
We are building GEM GAIN less for the income, and more as a tool for reestablishing all our sites programmatically. Having an actual product helps to offset some of the infrastructure costs we have in redesigning.
We will work on each of our Advertising Websites, one at a time. In return, each of these websites
will give back a small percentage (3 to 7%) of their advertising income back to GEM GAIN - Forever!
The amount of money generated in such way is then splitted among the GEMs owned by our members here,
making the GEM price always go higher.
Owning GEMs is optional. The GEM initial cost will be of $1.00 and will grow ALWAYS higher each week. There will be only 10,000 GEMs in the system and each GEM purchased is tied to advertising products (TBD).
This is a win-win system for both our old websites and GEM GAIN too.
Aside from the first website that will be reinstated online (solanads.net), the order in which our websites will be fixed will be decided by our members through a voting system on the GEM GAIN website.
Solanads was just born when our server was put offline so we owe to Solanads advertisers their website to be back asap.
Stay Tuned!