KevinL
Flashlight Enthusiast
All good things must come to an end.....
As some of you have noticed, over the past year or so, FLDB and the main LightRefineries review site have been sorely neglected. To the point where even the scammers and crackers noticed. I am very disappointed in the quality of some of the software we used to use as vulnerabilities in the software enabled a compromise, through the web, down to the filesystem level of the server. The vulnerabilities have since been addressed. By nuking the aforementioned software off my server. I have run servers for almost a decade and never been compromised.. till now. The sole reason of hijacking my box was to serve spam ads.
I would like to say a couple of things....
- To the spammers and scammers - thanks for making everybody's life a living hell. We hope you receive yours in the afterlife. Like terrorists there is a special place reserved for you.
- To those who actually buy the 'enlargement' 'herbal' 'products' that the spammers are selling, you are just as lame. Literally. In the very *ahem* you are so trying to enlarge. And for that fact, if you actually believe that what they are selling works, you must be just as stupid as you are lame.
That having been said..
Thank you to all of you who have supported FLDB and the site through the years. Unfortunately I no longer have time to continually defend my systems against a rising tide of lameness on the Net and as such I have decided to turn in my root admin password (ie. turn in my keys). This means FLDB has to go. My apologies. Please direct all hate mail to the spammers, for they are the ones that caused this.
No, despite the fact that we ran Adsense ads, all the ads did was defray the cost of the VPS, which turned out to be a Very [e]xpensive Private Server in addition to a Virtual Private Server. So I did not get rich out of this. FLDB was truly a community resource for the community and would have run for a long time if not for this.
Additionally, a very special thanks to all of those of you who took the time to write reviews. These reviews were read over 151 THOUSAND times by the lighting community. Your time helped them and you have our gratitude.
The site is closed, FLDB will be closing shortly. Thanks again for all your support.
PS: As for myself on the other hand I will continue to stick around on the forums. Site's gone... but I am certainly not!
As some of you have noticed, over the past year or so, FLDB and the main LightRefineries review site have been sorely neglected. To the point where even the scammers and crackers noticed. I am very disappointed in the quality of some of the software we used to use as vulnerabilities in the software enabled a compromise, through the web, down to the filesystem level of the server. The vulnerabilities have since been addressed. By nuking the aforementioned software off my server. I have run servers for almost a decade and never been compromised.. till now. The sole reason of hijacking my box was to serve spam ads.
I would like to say a couple of things....
- To the spammers and scammers - thanks for making everybody's life a living hell. We hope you receive yours in the afterlife. Like terrorists there is a special place reserved for you.
- To those who actually buy the 'enlargement' 'herbal' 'products' that the spammers are selling, you are just as lame. Literally. In the very *ahem* you are so trying to enlarge. And for that fact, if you actually believe that what they are selling works, you must be just as stupid as you are lame.
That having been said..
Thank you to all of you who have supported FLDB and the site through the years. Unfortunately I no longer have time to continually defend my systems against a rising tide of lameness on the Net and as such I have decided to turn in my root admin password (ie. turn in my keys). This means FLDB has to go. My apologies. Please direct all hate mail to the spammers, for they are the ones that caused this.
No, despite the fact that we ran Adsense ads, all the ads did was defray the cost of the VPS, which turned out to be a Very [e]xpensive Private Server in addition to a Virtual Private Server. So I did not get rich out of this. FLDB was truly a community resource for the community and would have run for a long time if not for this.
Additionally, a very special thanks to all of those of you who took the time to write reviews. These reviews were read over 151 THOUSAND times by the lighting community. Your time helped them and you have our gratitude.
The site is closed, FLDB will be closing shortly. Thanks again for all your support.
PS: As for myself on the other hand I will continue to stick around on the forums. Site's gone... but I am certainly not!
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, That's terrible! I really liked the quality of your reviews, your style of writing, and great pictures! Just last week, I directed a member to the ROP recipe on your site, only to find it was down. I'll really miss your site. It was the first flashlight-related site I came across in December of 2006 (can't remember how I stumbled across it, though) and what led me to Doug's site and to these forums. Any chance you'll use CPF as a medium for continuing your writing?
