GMail accounts
GMail email addresses have a high potential for abuse, primarily in how Google set them up. This is an issue with dots or periods in the username portion of the email address.
Please click here to see Google's explanation on dots or periods in the username portion of a gmail.com email address.
While it is understandable why Google decided to do this, it is definately not standard and is easily exploited by spammers and abusers to create multiple accounts on a site to retain access while their other accounts get banned. In order to stop spam and prevent abuse, we have decided to implement a policy to deactivate any account with a gmail address which contains a dot or period as part of the username portion of the email address, considering that gmail accounts get translated by Google to a username without dots or periods.
Any accounts that are deactivated for this reason will not be reactivated, as a disabled account will prevent further registration attempts with that same dotted email address. The easiest way to avoid this is to not use dots or periods in the username portion of your gmail address.
5/5/2024 Updates
Once again, several improvement to the site have been made.
- HTTP/3 and QUIC are now supported protocols, for all of the websites that we host. This will signifigantly reduce the page load times, and increase page responsiveness.
- Caching has been greatly improved, to reduce page load times.
- A new site has been created to host documents and PDF's. In time, the Per-Heh Library will be moved over to that new site to simplify the setup of the main site, increasing stability especially when there are major updates to the software that runs this site. The new site currently does not allow user creation, and will become publicly available once a workable Single Sign On setup is in place. This means that if you login to either site, you will be logged in to both.
- All web sites that we host are now regularly backed up to a secure location, to minimize any downtime for any reason whatsoever.
- Our hosted sites will now default to Brotli compression, only using gzip as a fall back compression algorithm for browsers that do not support Brotli.
- TLS 1.3 is now a requirement for all services that use encryption.
The Single Sign On is currently the last obstacle that needs to be addressed. There is currently no time frame that can be announced for it's completion, however work is underway on our test site. Once that work is completed on the test site, it will be ported over to our main site.