can you post your new website url here, i’ll take a look see whats happening
as for the cloudflare you’ll need to setup the parked domain as its not compatible with the infinityfree subdomain, after that you can register for free at https://www.cloudflare.com/ and add your domain name
theres some setting up of name servers and such required
Bad News: I have received a 50% limit email today for the new account
What I don’t understand is until about 6 weeks ago I never reached the 50% limit, without any noticeable increase in traffic I am now hitting 100% and being suspended,
This was also the time that the images stopped showing on 1st load.
In regards to useing .php the site was originally hosted Virgin Media’s free hosting which was very restrictive and I found a way to use text files to create the links on the home page and the Next links on the other pages.
I believe that it was .asp on Virgin Media but had to rename to .php when moving to other free hosts.
Just done a quick test and both .htm and .asp loses the footer including the automated text file to links code.
This means you need to redo your code somehow. Maybe instead of many images in one page, you split it into more pages with only 6-10 images per page.
Our servers use PHP as the dynamic scripting language, which is why .asp does not do anything (our servers do not run ASP). .htm(l) is used for static content on our servers, so it will not be sent to the interpreter, only to the client which is why the footer does not load.
Each page is of a specific location / building etc, Splitting to Page1, Page2 etc seems so 1990s
It still doesn’t answer why I never got a 50% email until about 6 weeks ago and now I’m suddenly going over 100% without an increase in traffic.
Strangely I have just done a test on about a dozen of the larger pages and all but 1 loaded straight away including those that where problematic earlier.
The 1 that is failing has 19 images ( https://www.old-rotherham.co.uk/OlympicTorch.php ). Previous failing ( https://www.old-rotherham.co.uk/Masbrough.php ) has 35 images and is now working ???
Think I would have to try to find another host before re-writing over 160 pages
It is weird, I’m not in a disagreement on that. The new account somewhat proves that the issue on with your page, but if it worked before, then something changed on the server side. So something’s up.
One other thing I can think of. Do you have a backup from back when the site was working correctly? Try installing that backup and don’t change anything with it, see what happens.
As for other hosts, most (good) free hosting providers use the same network/servers that InfinityFree does. InfinityFree is also one of the only free hosting services with good community support. Unfortunately, you are not going to get much better without paying.
The only changes that happen is creating a new page from a template or updating a page with a new “Image Set”.
None of the coding has changed for at least a year.
in regards to backups I just have a offline copy that all changes are done to first before uploading so it is more a current copy in case the host disappeared than an historic backup.
I must agree about the community support, the last couple of days have proved that. I also know that I can’t complain too much about a service I get for free but it is good to have a little internal scream every now and then
I am very sorry but I actually forgot about this part
The only thing I can suggest (sorry this is going to be a pain) is instead of an infinityfree subdomain with a parked domain is
create an account with the custom domain option using your domain name - so that there is no infinityfree subdomain visible to the outside world (evil bots etc). this will create the standard directory /htdocs
use infinityfree addon domain option in cpanel and add your domain. this will create a new directory /old-rotherham.co.uk/htdocs
add the site to cloudflare again and set the name servers again
turn on ddos protection and add the cache rule in cloudflare
upload your site to the new /old-rotherham.co.uk/htdocs directory and delete the original /htdocs that was created
At one point I got 15000 hits from the netherlands per hour every day and this was getting my site suspended and somehow I think they were accessing the infinityfree subdomain url instead of my main domain name so they were bypassing the cloudflare protection and is why I ended up (finally) creating a new account with custom domain instead of a parked domain
Just to let you know: I was informed by iFastNet yesterday that a few changes have been made:
The rate limit has been increased, meaning pages with many images should work now.
An issue was fixed that caused Entry Process usage to be much higher on sites with a lot of static content. This was fixed, so high EP usage should be mostly related to PHP again, as it was before.
These two fixes together should help ensure that your pages just work and you should not get suspended again.