Doesn’t seem like a suspension, it’s more like finishing a meal at a restaurant. Whatever that’s called.
I’m not sure I understand the analogy.
If you’re going to go with a food analogy, its more like being told its time to finish at an all you can eat restaurant because you’ve exceeded their limit. (most all you can eat restaurants, have a limit but its usually more than most people can ever eat.)
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But in most places they give you like a 10 minute heads up. So to apply it to “suspension” you would get an email or some other notification along the lines, “You have 10 more visits” or something to that effect before suspension. But the word choice makes it sound negative. Why “suspension”, why not something like “usage limit reached”?
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Suspension is an accurate word to describe what is happening.
When the usage limit is reached, the site is suspended for 24 hours. “usage limit reached” is the why, not thew what in this case
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How about “put on hold”? Suspension has a negative connotation.
Ultimately, its Admin’s (or possibly IFastNet’s) decision, not to make, not mine.
But I’d argue that if you’ve exceeded the hits limit, that’s already a negative situation.
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If I reached a limit on a free service, I would not see it as a negative. It would be a positive, and I would possibly invest to get more exposure. If I put say $10/month to get more exposure and my account didn’t go past the free visits/hits I would see that as a waste of an investment.
I understand what you’re saying with that. But on the other hand, if you hit the hits limit too many times (without upgrading) that results in a permanent suspension…
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“Suspension” is industry standard terminology for when hosting services are (temporarily) disabled. It does have somewhat of a negative connotation, but for most people, their website going down is a bad thing.
While I can change some of the wording in the client area, the underlying hosting platform still considers everything a suspension. So even if I change the wording to “deactivated” instead of “suspended by request”, it won’t change the fact that your website will redirect to suspended-domain.net. And the current wording is like it is specifically to avoid confusion there.
I get your point how maxing out the traffic can be an achievement. But I think that most people would disagree with you there.
If you paid money to acquire more visitors, then most people would get pretty angry when their website went down, so they are losing out on visitors they paid for.
Also, there are other reasons why you might hit it, like inefficient website code or bugs. It’s not necessarily a sign of popularity.
All in all, celebrating that an account reached the limit and is now down for 24 hours seems like very bad taste to me.
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