BtS-Mods.com Closing Down
 

Due to circumstances beyond my control I am forced to close BtS-Mods.com for good. I'd like to thank everyone who supported us for doing so, and I am truly sorry for having to do this.

Thanks all.

Oh No! Why?

Sorry to hear that Russ :yep:

Just when you was thinking that the day could not get any worse :nope:
BtS will be missed.
Thanks for the past good work Russ i really enjoyed my time working on your team :salute:

an incredible modding resource -- this is really tragic!

Hello Russ,

is this permanent ?

thats really ...bad news and ....unexpected !

nothing can be done about this ?

What the devil? This is inconceivable... why? :cry:

as a competitor to another, I offer to any involved my sincerest condolences... :salute:

BtS will be missed. Thank You for a Great Site.

It will be greatly missed.

This is the message on the BtS-Mods forum:

SWCowboy: I posted this earlier on in SubSim but I'll give you a more detailed report here.

For the past couple of weeks our server has been overwhelmed and extremely sluggish. Because our bandwidth went beserk while people were trying to download mods and use our forums, we were shut off by the hosting company and I was dinged with some pretty monumental fees. As per the hosting company I was also required to delete all mods from the server before we were brought back online.

Because we are now unable to host our files, we are also unable to provide the services we once did to the community.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

Take care everyone.

http://www.bts-mods.com/forums/index.php?topic=2295.0

:nope:

Horrifying... one of my favorite and more useful websites. Well TY for all the great work.. I always found mods very easy to locate and or download from BTS in the past. An absolute travesty on this loss. :cry:

Thanks for the update, SW Cowboy. I'm still in shock. Wouldn't it be possible to find another hosting company with adequate/affordable bandwidth? I know there must be many on subsim who would be more than happy to donate in order to defray the cost of site hosting and maintenance of such a valuable modding resource.

Easy_Eight65

Sorry to hear that, Cowboy. I know how difficult it can be to keep a website running, for every 100 people who use the Subsim forums or downloads, one person makes a donation.

Carotio, through time I learned it was not all about competition when it came to hosting mods, it was all about ensuring the community and it's members had an adequate place to find their downloads and enjoy the game.

In the 5 years I've done business with Hostmonster and the two years we used with their service for our needs I have never had any issues with them like this. It's pretty disappointing that in order to get my 4 other websites back online I was forced to erase 80 gigabytes of files in a heartbeat with no time to back them up on my own hard drive. That's physically impossible the day before I go on a deployment.

When I return to the US I intend to seek out a more dedicated server and rebuild the site, but rebuilding may take some time...

I'll be in touch, have some work to do. Enjoy the weekend guys - sorry for the kick in the nuts but the pain is only temporary!