samwise wrote:
It is not an unfortunate accident that the hosting company has pulled the hosting - it was almost inevitable they would do so eventually when someone less favourable to our group noticed they were providing it for free. The unfortunate part is that they gave no notice, and seemingly won't allow access to the data but it's hard to hold that against them.
To be fair to said individual we don't actually *know* that is the case at the moment.
It has been a week since the site went down and five days since we noticed and I sent the initial mail to them asking for help. The mail was sent to their personal email address.
Now they could be on holiday, working away from home, unwell.
The mail could have gone into a black hole or junk mail.
I have dealt with this person and even after the unfortunate argument on list that prompted them to leave, they have been nothing but helpful and seemed happy to continue to host the site. At the moment I am finding it difficult to believe that this person would just pull the hosting without contacting someone and warning them.
For all we know this is an honest mistake, the site was compromised and hit a traffic allowance, some automated site suspension was triggered for whatever reason or they have closed their reseller account this was provided under and forgot that we were hosted there.