− | Because the traffic was getting to be too much, the website was moved from R. Noelle's home computer server to a free online host at <nowiki>http://samurai.bigsitecity.com/</nowiki> <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://samurai.bigsitecity.com The Bigsitecity website as logged on the Internet Archive]</ref> sometime in 2000. It was hosted there until the host server mysteriously crashed without warning in late July or early August of 2001.<ref>Further research shows that what had actually happened was that the domain name bigsitecity.com expired at this time and was not continued by the original holder.</ref> Because some images were not backed up, there was some irretrievable losses, including some clan kamon and genealogy images. Other lost images were fortunately saved by some forum members who had saved them to thier computer. Repeated attempts to contact the host (bigsitecity.com)<ref>It seems that bigsitecity.com, if it still exists, is now mainly a host for prolific spammers. ''(see this [http://spamhuntress.com/wiki/Bigsitecity.com Wikipedia article] for details)''</ref> got us nowhere, but since it was a free hosting site, there was not much we could do, so we moved yet again. | + | Because the traffic was getting to be too much, the website was moved from R. Noelle's home computer server to a free online host at <nowiki>http://samurai.bigsitecity.com/</nowiki> <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://samurai.bigsitecity.com The Bigsitecity website as logged on the Internet Archive]</ref> sometime in 2000. It was hosted there until the host server mysteriously crashed without warning in late July or early August of 2001.<ref>Further research shows that what had actually happened was that the domain name bigsitecity.com expired at this time and was not renewed by the original holder.</ref> Because some images were not backed up, there was some irretrievable losses, including some clan kamon and genealogy images. Other lost images were fortunately saved by some forum members who had saved them to thier computer. Repeated attempts to contact the host (bigsitecity.com)<ref>It seems that bigsitecity.com, if it still exists, is now mainly a host for prolific spammers. ''(see this [http://spamhuntress.com/wiki/Bigsitecity.com Wikipedia article] for details)''</ref> got us nowhere, but since it was a free hosting site, there was not much we could do, so we moved yet again. |