19th October 2011 New Registrations reopened... with a catch.

Recently FH was the victim of DoS attacks which resulted in unavailability of php or mysql on hosted sites.

A user registered an account and used it to run extremely slow mysql queries among other things to purposely harm the server.

For this reason we had temporarily closed the creation of new accounts.
As this appears to be an ongoing attack for the forseeable future, we have changed our registration system so that to register an account you must be invited by an existing member.
All existing members who have logged in to their account in the last 2 months have been given 1 invite for each month you have been a member, you can use them to invite others.

Once we have the system setup (soon), if you cant get an invite you will also have the option to pay a one time fee of about $5 payable in bitcoins.

We dont really like this solution, but its the only way we can see for continuing to provide this service in the future.

I would also like to announce that the snapshot based backup system is up and running, backups are made daily and kept for upto 1 month, this will protect against any future data loss due to accounts being hacked.