kevin -- never underestimate a Simpson! :) Look forward to the dramatic return of the site (so my webpage will work again!)

thesimpsonsquotes.com will be backonline, the exponential growth of hits on our site from this widget basically burned out our hard drive and we are in the process of reinstalling from backups. It is simply amazing to see how popular this widget became so quickly, even with us having to limit the random quote feature until Justin contacts us to work out a non-abusive solution. From 8am EST yesterday until we pulled the random feature we received more hits from this engine than ALL of Sunday. And from 6pm until our hard drive crashed at about 4:30am EST we received more requests than from that morning. I am very much in awe.

Alex -- I note that your site is currently down (looks like everything is being reinstalled from scratch). Is this the end of thesimpsonsquotes.com? I have utilized the add the script to your webpage feature and miss it!

Alex -- I note that your site is currently down (looks like everything is being reinstalled from scratch). Is this the end of thesimpsonsquotes.com? I have utilized the add the script to your webpage feature and miss it!

In reference to Justin's 7/29/2005 comments regarding lack of control over quality/quantity of quotes, that is actually 100% false. Had Justin simply taken the time to contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and ASKED us how to properly query the database we could have allowed him to sort the quotes selected by the user rating (votes).

Additionally, we would have been happy to set him up as an admin so that he could correct spelling errors/inaccurate quotes.

We are very much dedicated Simpsons fans, and *LOVE* the idea of a Simpson on Every Desktop, but being the victum of Justin's Distributed Denial of Service Attack is not helping the cause.

Well maybe youll get in touch with him Alex, so we can get all this sorted out :) BTW, I can't blame you for cutting it off if it's eating that much of your bandwidth.

its a o.k

from the help file his email is : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it his website is at www.chewtoy.net

the person who did the portrats email is This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

hope this helps simpsons quote guys

I have no way to contact him other than here, so here I am. Hoping that he'll see the post, or one of his friends does. If he wants access to my database, he needs to email me and coordinate. That would have avoided the whole problem (and we'd have added a link from the site to the widget site).

TheBarge - My problem is that he deployed this system that sucks lots of traffic without coordinating us. What are you suggesting, that I either dedicate a server at Colo to running a quotes site, or not offer one? The site makes no money (under $20/mo) and is a fun project, but I can't buy it a dedicated server. I'm happy to work with the author of the widget to support the widget, but not when he is running up my bandwidth and hosting service unnecessarily.

Most side-projects and fan-sites don't really have a big budget production system backing them. I LIKE providing a free resource to other fans, but apparently, this is considered rude.

I didn't ask for money. I'm not trying to sell content. I have a database of content, that he is welcome to use if he coordinates with us on using it. He can't just start using our servers excessively without coordinating UNLESS he wants what happened (shutting down the quotes gateway) to happen.

I have no way

TheBarge - My problem is that he deployed this system that sucks lots of traffic without coordinating us. What are you suggesting, that I either dedicate a server at Colo to running a quotes site, or not offer one? The site makes no money (

Come on Alex. What's your problem? You're whole problem is that this has effected your production server. Ummmm... maybe you shouldnt be running production sites on the same server as some Simpsons quote site? Just a thought. And apparently to clear up these issues all you want is contact from the author? Hey Alex, guess what.. you aren't Fox. You didn't actually come up with any of this content. Fox did. Maybe if this becomes a little more popular you'll be getting a call from them to shut your ad-generating site down.

widget has been shut down by the simpsons quotes website??

I'm not the bad guy here, I'm the guy picking up the tab for everyone to get quotes from a small project that my employees and I maintain in our spare time, hoping to get contacted by Justin so that we can work out a solution so quotes can resume.

I LOVE having the Widget, I was working with the Family Guy Quotes Widget to do a Simpsons one and other ones off some of our many quotes sites. I'm happy to ADD functionality to make the Widget more powerful.

But I need to be contacted before he starts sucking data off my site and implying that it is our shortcomings.

All he HAD (and HAS) to do is ask!

no harm, no foul. When distribution hit 20,000, a polite email would have been nice.

The site sits on my lowest powered server, that runs a bunch of newly developed projects, and grabbed tremendous amounts of bandwidth.

It was poor behavior, and a simple email would have SOLVED the entire matter. Instead, I have had this error message running all day, making him (and us) look bad for no reason.

Open communication would solve this.

Look at HIS comments in this thread, he criticizes that we don't let him filter by rankings (and that he is working on a clever solution to suck them out of our site), if he asked for that, we'd have gladly added that to the system.

We LOVE the Widget, we HATE the fact that he didn't ask permission and talk to us.

Look at ALL the feature requests. He's looking for solutions to hack them in, when with a small request, we'd add server-side support the minimizes database disruption and usage.

I'm not the bad guy he