My Current Website Woes

[mrlich]

1. My site is currently hosted by some clearly unprofessional hacks
2. They just received a large payment for my hosting fees. This despite the fact that I have decided to switch hosting over to a much better service as quickly as I am able to get the new revision of my site built for upload.
3. They shut off my site due to a billing error which I have since fixed.
4. When my site didn't come back up, I tried to call my current host's 800 number only to find it disconnected.
5. It's been several days and my site has not come up, and their phone is still disconnected.

I've logged a trouble ticket in the remote hopes that maybe they're still functioning on some level. Their fax machine still appears to be working (found through a quick whois lookup). I'll also try email, though I'm not holding my breathe for any of these to garner a response.

I would be fine with all of this except for the large payment they just received (>$100). That annoys me. A lot.

Comments

[boutell.livejournal.com]

I could set that up, and I would not charge for it for philadel purposes. I think it could lead to some confusion if people post to the forums and other people wonder why they are not seeing things on the mailing list, but you have to break eggs to make an omelet.

[mrlich.livejournal.com]

That would be awesome!

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

if y'all wanted to go to an entirely forum/BBS model, you could just set up the mailing list with an auto-reply saying "hey, don't use this anymore - go here instead".

I'd rather stick with the mailing list, fwiw, but then I mostly read it in a voyeur capacity.

[mrlich.livejournal.com]

I think that both have their place. I would certainly not want to do away with the list unless we found that the site would cover that ground nicely (which I don't believe it would). In addition, I think that a drupal site would function nicely for those with voyueristic tendancies. Photos, more 'conversations' etc.