12.00 AM time of writing , Happy Birthday Iraqhits.net, I miss you so much. The site I started with a friend of mine, Faisal was to be a project to support Iraqi singers whom been downsized and underrated by the media or to be honest, lack of it. With the wide spread and reduced webhosting costs, many sites
(Forums as far as Iraqi concerned) and Crappy singers and songs with meaningless music and lyrics (Rade7 7aflat) our project soon turned into dust. We had a policy of not adding any (Pro claimed copyright), we didn't want to ruin any song + not to be legally accountable, Also we didn't have forced membership. We did "Agreed" a deal with a singer from the type we wanted to fight, in return we use his connections to get other singers to our project. We had a couple of them but we were facing designing difficulties as our design team leader lived in Iraq in a time electricity was never around, and openings kept on delaying. Later on it got hard to compete with other kids that ran VBulletin forums for 2 reasons: A- Continuous hacking attacks I defended day and night, B- Downloading materials from our free shareware site, inputting a vocal sound track with referral to their site (so stupidly effective). But at the same time we couldn't just close the website which had nearly 1200 active members (from 4000 registered members) and exceeding nearly 50k-200k page views per day, so we did the forced memberships for a while and that was the beginning of the end, because database got huge expansion, and database connections/second exceeded the hosting plan amount which repeatedly resulted into downtimes. That forced me to move to a VPS plans which meant only 1 thing, highest costs for no-income site. Consuming our money, time, and wasted efforts to change the way it was we sadly failed, and I take most the blame from my view. the site has been closed from 2010. and 2 months ago I released the domain name and removed all database backup that I had on my external drivers. The only thing I take proudly from that experience is than I got to know some good people (some of them appeared to be related to my best friend lolz), a close mate like Faisal, and an experience that changed my life.
I had many laughs, now it's time to salute those memories.
(Forums as far as Iraqi concerned) and Crappy singers and songs with meaningless music and lyrics (Rade7 7aflat) our project soon turned into dust. We had a policy of not adding any (Pro claimed copyright), we didn't want to ruin any song + not to be legally accountable, Also we didn't have forced membership. We did "Agreed" a deal with a singer from the type we wanted to fight, in return we use his connections to get other singers to our project. We had a couple of them but we were facing designing difficulties as our design team leader lived in Iraq in a time electricity was never around, and openings kept on delaying. Later on it got hard to compete with other kids that ran VBulletin forums for 2 reasons: A- Continuous hacking attacks I defended day and night, B- Downloading materials from our free shareware site, inputting a vocal sound track with referral to their site (so stupidly effective). But at the same time we couldn't just close the website which had nearly 1200 active members (from 4000 registered members) and exceeding nearly 50k-200k page views per day, so we did the forced memberships for a while and that was the beginning of the end, because database got huge expansion, and database connections/second exceeded the hosting plan amount which repeatedly resulted into downtimes. That forced me to move to a VPS plans which meant only 1 thing, highest costs for no-income site. Consuming our money, time, and wasted efforts to change the way it was we sadly failed, and I take most the blame from my view. the site has been closed from 2010. and 2 months ago I released the domain name and removed all database backup that I had on my external drivers. The only thing I take proudly from that experience is than I got to know some good people (some of them appeared to be related to my best friend lolz), a close mate like Faisal, and an experience that changed my life.
I had many laughs, now it's time to salute those memories.
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