From: Patrick Jankowiak (eccm@swbell.net)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 21:13:11 PDT
A friend of mine had a similar experience. The ISP went bankrupt. One
day, it was just 'gone'. Everyone had paid up for a year, and got
shafted out of 6 month's service. To make it worse, this place
guaranteed you a T-1 rate and server space for your own server, and so
the $1000/month for the T-1 was lost, and everyone had to 'prove'
which machines were theirs.
This is why I run an old DEC Alpha from home with a DSL line from
Southwestern Bell. They are not going out of business, and my data is
here, and I can back it up over the lan via FTP to an PC for the
purpose. The extra work of admin'ing a realcomputer and the expense of
DSL is worth it.
I didn't find any info on ARIN for your ISP. That bothers me. It's a
bad sign. I hope they can at least send you a backup tape. If you're
paying, backups should be their responsibility.
Chris Stansbury wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
> I don't know if any of you have noticed, but Steel Soldiers has been
> off-line since the middle of May. When you go there, you get a message
> about the account being suspended. I get the same message when I got to the
> GenuHost homepage (www.genuhost.com). GenuHost has been my host since last
> year and I have never had any problems with them. Now all of a sudden, the
> whole thing goes off-line and they won't return e-mails or phone calls as to
> why this has happened. My biggest problem is that I only have about 50% of
> my site saved on my hard drive, the rest was on the server only. I can get
> a new host, but alot of my stuff is still with GenuHost. Do any of you have
> firsthand experience with this kind of crap? Any suggestions? I like to
> think that Steel Soldiers was one of the larger military sites on the net
> and it had a pretty good following so I'd like to get it back up. Thanks
> for any help y'all.
> Sincerely,
> Chris Stansbury
> Clarksburg, WV
> webmaster, http://www.steelsoldiers.com
> 1984 M1009 CUCV
> 1961 M116/BCTM pioneer tool trailer
> 1970 M35A2 w/w
>
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