Sinister Attraction first opened at Tripod (back in the days where they gave you 50 MB and it was free with only ONE pop-up add) in September 2001. I used a program called Trellix to design the site, a program that enabled the user to know nothing about HTML, so I didn't learn much. For the first few months, I spent most of my time working on the content of the site, not the graphics, anyway.

    Later on, when the site got too big because Tripod set the space maximum back to 20 MB, a friend offered to host me on the Tripod Plus, the one where you pay for it and there are no pop-up adds. However, with the rate that the archive was growing, I began getting near the 75 MBs of space I was given, and had to start looking for a new place since I couldn't afford my own domain back then.

    It was then that the whole Darkprophecies.net fiasco came up. Jaina, the owner of Dusk Til Dawn, e-mailed me and offered to host SA on their domain, www.darkprophecies.net. It was great -- for the first few months, anyway. I had 200 MB of space and plenty of bandwidth, and the other hostees were also great, some of us became really good friends. However, all of a sudden, the domain died. It just DIED. It was back up in another week or two before the domain got shut down for good again. The reason it got shut down was that certain sites had copy written files (like mp3s, wavs, mpegs, etc.) on their site and that was against the rules of the domain provider. Even though the provider put DP.net back up, it was shut down once again for the same reason. Most of the hostees were annoyed since there were now some 30 or 40 homeless sites after that and the owners provided no help and gave no updates or let us know what was going on at the time.

    So there SA was, a homeless site, that was over 100 MB, and needed plenty of bandwidth to survive -- which meant no free servers would ever be able to support my site. I lost a lot of visitors because of what happened with Darkprophecies, but luckily, I recovered.

    Luckily, Cecile from www.stuck-in-the-middle.com stepped in and graciously offered to host me for a couple months until I could get up enough money to get my own domain. She's such a sweetie, and helped me out SO much and we became good friends. If it weren't for her, my site probably would have died right there. Anyway, she hosted me on her site for a little over two months while I worked on saving my money.

    I bought my own domain in January -- www.cloudy-visions.org and uploaded SA there. It was there for about 7 months before I realized that the site was too huge to be on a domain where I also had 5 other sites and a few hosted sites. In late June, almost July, I bought another, separate domain for Sinister Attraction -- www.sinister-attraction.net where I hope the site will stay until I close (which isn't anytime in the near future.)

    Then, in late August 2003, I realized that Active Web Hosting LIES when it says that it has unlimited bandwidth and is a great place to have a site that has high bandwidth and many visitors. So, I decided to move to a new domain provider, one that Annalore pointed out to me one night. (Thank you!) I ended my account act AWH and set up SA at www.netrillium.net (Which meant reuploading everything to the server AGAIN!), where I actually had a space/bandwidth plan and a control panel, which I love! SA loads faster, like it should have been all along, and is much more user-friendly IMHO.

    So there is the boring history of SA!

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