I don’t know how to start this post but probably a sincere apology to the loyal visitors of giuk.net for the abrupt shut down of the website since last week. The site was suspended by the host for eating too much of the bandwidth resources which was a surprise to me since a few days before that, I optimised the database and deleted entries that were older than 3 months.

From the logs, one script was doing all the eating and it was actually suppose to run once per hour but someone, somewhere figured out the name of the script and made numerous requests directly to it. I don’t want to assume that his intention was bad but I can’t shake off that feeling.

I suppose I could improve the script myself but to tell you the truth, the back-end php script engine’s source code is pretty messed up for my taste and looking at my life as a daddy to a few months’ old baby, a full-time programmer and also maintaining a lot of other sites, I have to confess that I don’t have enough time to tinker the code for this project.

Revenue-wise, giuk.net is also the lowest income-generating online project. I only get paid for the Nuffnang ads and TLA. While adsense only bring in a few dollars each month. So understandably, this site is not on my top of the list of favourite projects.

So where do we go from here? Well for one, I will not kill the project (yet), the domain is not expiring soon so I might as well play with this for a while. I have always thought having a digg-clone website but covering Sabah-related content.

That will be the path for giuk and by May, I will know if I want to keep it up and just let it die in peace. I would love to hear any feedback though.

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