Little Guy in Little Red Dot

This email from bluehost almost gave me a heart attack, “WEB HOSTING ACCOUNT DEACTIVATED”.

My adsense account is just a few dollars shy of reaching the minimum payout of $100. I estimate that I should be able to hit it during the period while I am away for Bangkok trip. I am very excited as this is going to be the first real money I am going to make thru the internet after a period of a year plus. I logged on my adsense account the moment I reached home and found it to be only $99+. What the heck?

I checked my email and found this email, “WEB HOSTING ACCOUNT DEACTIVATED”!

Oh My God! What have I done? What has happened?

This is the first time I faced this situation, the email states:

Dear Ong:

Your web hosting account for has been deactivated (reason: terms of service violation).

Although your web site has been disabled, your data may still be available for up to 30 days, after which it will be deleted.

If you feel this deactivation is in error, please contact customer support as soon as possible.

I went to check the bluehost TOS and I think I know why my web hosting account is being deactivated.
I quickly went to bluehost helpdesk to open a ticket:

Hi there,

I would like to know which of my domains has violated the terms of service and how I can re-activate back my web hosting account.

Thanks.

Finally the next day they replied:

You have copyrighted anime on your account. Also any links to adult content need to be removed. I have changed your account so that you now have access to your bluehost cpanel. Please let us know when you have removed these files and then we will reactivate your website.

Just as I expected, its those animes that I had on anime-love.com! I quickly removed all the anime hoping to recover my account fast.

Hi,
 
I have removed all the anime from anime-love.com. Regarding the adult content, I am quite sure I didnt host any of them. But if there is any, pls enlighten me at which domain and I will remove it as soon as possible.
 
Pls help me to reactivate my website asap.
 
Thanks.

I was relieved that they finally re-activated my hosting account after a few hours.

So, remember you cannot host anime websites on bluehost! This lesson also taught me that it is better to have a few webhosting accounts rather than only one all-in-one webhost because if your webhosting account is to be suspended or terminated, all your websites in that account will be affected! One more important thing to do is to regularly backup your website offline, so that you can get your website up in a short amount of time by getting another webhost and pointing your domain name to them.

Lastly, I finally reached the $100 minimum payout for adsense. OH YES!