Dear adBrite Publisher,

Over the last few weeks, adBrite and its management have been evaluating the go-forward plan for the business. Given market conditions and certain financial liabilities, in working with our lenders, we have decided to cease operations on Feb 1, 2013.

This is a difficult decision for all of us at adBrite. However, after much deliberation this seems to be the best course of action despite the impact it will have on all the employees, clients and partners who helped build this business. There will be a team in place as needed to assist with winding down.
Thank you for being part of the adBrite community.

The adBrite Team

This is sad news! I never did a lot with adBrite, they were always a decent alternative to other ad programs. I will miss you adBrite!

Backup your Database. (name it “first backup”)

Change your WordPress admin password to something very secure and very different from what you were using.

Create a new email based on the domain (wpadmin@example.com) and then change the admin email to that address.

Remove any other users created that are no longer necessary.

Remove any unused or extra plugins.

Remove any unused themes.

Backup up your database again. (name it “before revision remove”)

Delete all Revisions.

“DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”;”

Backup your database again (name it “after revision remove”)

Check your WordPress database to see if any plugins left any tables behind, and delete them. Once you have done that, go make sure your WordPress install is all still working ( that you didn’t mistakenly remove a table you needed).

Now backup up your database again. (name it “final backup”).

If you did change the email address in the 2nd step, do a search/replace on your “final” backup file for it, replacing it with the newly created address based on the domain. (wpadmin@example.com)

Now download the entire the site locally.

Open up the wp-config.php file and remove your database name, username, and password.

Now, zip the files up along with the database backup file and send it off to the new owner.

WordPress will evolve beyond just software running on web server or platform. It will become the web server and platform in one.

I was showing over 100,000 files in my bluehost account. This was causing warnings and messages to appear throughout the control panel telling me I could be in violation of the terms of service.

Your account contains more than 9740 directories and may pose a potential performance risk to the server.
Please reduce the number of directories for your account to prevent possible account deactivation.

I cut that number down to about 80,000 by reducing some caching and removing themes from WordPress that I wasn’t using. I then opened a chat session to find out the real scoop.

Basically the Unlimited limits are:

200,000 files and 1000 MySQL tables.

The support Tech said what I have is normal, and not to worry. Anytime it gets over 50,000 it triggers the messages, and to just keep it under the 200k and 1000 table limit and I’m fine.

Drew: [6:45:45 PM] Unless your files get above 200,000 you won’t need to worry.

pair.net

As you are aware, —— is working toward migrating services from its existing data center to a new data center facility. These changes will allow us to operate with an improved hardware infrastructure. During the originally scheduled date (—– –th), —— encountered some technical issues. Due to these issues, we made the decision to roll back all migration activities at that time. We have taken an extensive look at the issues that occurred, and are making every effort to prevent these going forward. We have rescheduled the migration activities, and are writing to inform you of the new date and time as well as the expected impacts.

Translation: We screwed up the first time, we think we fixed it, so we are going to try this again.

Received this email:

Dear Customer.

Is your Gmail Account Active. Yes/No.

Shows a return path of:  Return-Path: <messenger05@susukiyamah111.com>

also some other telling items:

Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (173.201.193.246)
by p3plwbeout17-05.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with SMTP;

That IP (173.201.193.246) is registered to GoDaddy. What are the chances Google is using GoDaddy to send email? (zero)

Definitely NOT a legit email.

Below is a screen-shot of the email from within Gmail.

The solution is to either change the category base name to something else, or change the permalink name on that page to something different.

Now a simple view source shows their ad manipulation, the ad size is 336×280. They went and changed the setting google_ad_width to be 337, and google_ad_height to be 260 (removing 20 pixels) and therefore hiding the “Ads by Google” text from the ad.

This is a good way to get your account disabled! Bad bad practice!