Account suspended for chat script

[hcrtslrc]

Hi there. I've had a simple chat script on my site that my family uses to talk on. Now my account's been suspended because it's against the terms of service. However, I've heard that I can have a chat script if it doesn't use up the server's resources. Could you unsuspend my account and let me re-code my script to not use the server's resources so much? Before it was refreshing the chat window at about 1kb per second per chat user (at most 3 or 4 users). Is that too much?

I'm happy turning my chat into a little forum where there is no constant refreshing and only when the user comes back it refreshes.

 

[Livewire]

Unsuspending shortly, give it a few moments to take.

I got a clarification on the TOS wording, the ones using MySQL aren't allowed - yours is using flat-files (no database) and should be fine actually.

 

[hcrtslrc]

Unsuspending shortly, give it a few moments to take.

I got a clarification on the TOS wording, the ones using MySQL aren't allowed - yours is using flat-files (no database) and should be fine actually.

Yay, thanks!

 

[cybrax]

Hoorah!... digs out flat file chat script

 

[Livewire]

Fair warning, it MAY still trip high resource usage.

But it won't be permanent because it doesn't cause the MySQL server to drag horribly and slow down -everything-