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Websites in the Orbit

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by dhananjay_parkhe

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I had a funny experience.
I made a website on fortunecity.com.
I forgot my password.
I lost control over my website.
The Host could not help.
How does one control this.

I am sure, in this age of survival of the fittest - many websites will be in the orbit upon whom the owners would not have control. How does one control them?

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by michael roark - ccna/da mcp 3csa

I have probably about 10 different sites like that..
I'm suprised Geo/fortune/all the other cities haven't just written a file to email all of the owners, and give them a month,
if they don't modify their site it gets taken down...
If I had 20 TB of crap on my a webserver of mine, that's what I'd do,,
but right now.. I'm just contributing to the 'websites in orbit'
(I like that phrase, that's kinda cool)
you don't mind if I use that do ya?

by generalist

It is much cheaper to sacrifice a few TB of disk to 'websites in orbit' than it is to deal with a lawsuit from the one person whose site was 'irreplaceable'. (Chances are that one person knows a few lawyers who are willing to work for a piece of the action.)

On the other hand, if the person creating the site forgets about it or their password, that is their problem.

Logistics also can affect things. The programming cost of notifying the owners of the 'orbit' sites and of responding can be high. Furthermore, there are a lot of people who change their e-mail addresses frequently in search of the best ISP deals.
Finding them can be very, very expensive.

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