Hang in there Russ.
If you're having a bad week or day, all you have to do is read Russ's situation to feel better.
Russell Beattie
has had a tough week, but he is OK - at least in the physical world. In the
digital world of cyberspace, however, he is not doing so well. First, he
lost his client by accidentally installing Linux over his Windows partition.
Next, he lost his server because his ISP, CWIHosting.com,
has mysteriously shut down his account. CWIHosting tells him this is because
of "police reasons." The CWIHosting support people told him that he needs
to email the CTO and CEO to get any further information. Unfortunately, they
are not responding to his emails. He is a little worried that he might not
be allowed to get into his account and rescue his weblog archives. That is
a scary thought.
Russell thinks that "police reasons" might be actually be a mis-spelling
of "policy reasons" and perhaps he simply overloaded his shared Java VM by
misconfiguring something when he set up OSCache. I hope that is the case.
Anyway, Russell is setting up a new account at JohnCompanies.com ISP and hopes to be back on line by Monday or Tuesday. [ Blogging Roller ]
Russ seems like a pretty wholesome guy to me, so I'm guessing it's policy reasons not policing reasons. Nothing like having your site locked out to motivate you to switch hosting providers. I dream of the day, as I'm sure many of you do, that I can host my own site, and not worry about these things. I can't because my ISP doesn't give out static IPs. At the same time, kgbinternet.com hosts this site for $12/month and I get my own Tomcat instance!
I found a cool Mozilla feature while writing this post. I went to Dave's site to copy Russ's story, selected the story, and found "View Selection Source" on my right-click menu. What could be more beautiful on a Saturday afternoon? Me being done with work for the week, but no - I probably have another 10-12 hours to put in this weekend. It's gonna be a late night tonight.