The issues of the old host still aren't resolved. I've just given up waiting for them

Good to see it back. I've had similar problems with a host (Fuitadnet), but it took much longer to have them resolved. The account got flagged and disabled, and it took them nearly a month to figure out why it's been flagged in the first place (turns out they didn't like a PHP script that sent me an e-mail whenever somebody hit the "Submit" button).

Still, the worst experience I've had was with a company called X-Gravity. Here's what they sent me one day:

Safe to resume breathing again? Good.

Yeah, working.

Should be fixed.

Too true, unfortunately Partly, this is due to the several times I took private hosting offers from other webmasters who simply can't guarantee perfect service. Last time, it was a company which had been in business since 1998, though, which makes it even worse

phew...Back again!

Good to see the site and forums are back, I have to admit I was getting scared.

I sadly typed in the url every single day despite knowing in the back of my head that it was down for a bit.

Nice to see everything is going back nicely.

You seems to have a heavy history when it comes to server host disapointment...

Uploading avatars doesn't seem to work right now ("Internal Server Error").

Apparantely, a few avatars have been lost, too. I guess you can upload those again without many problems, though

At last!

It's only sad for all my higly intelligent, humorous and most important posts...

Ok, I think I've solved the authentification problem, too, so all administrative functions of both the site and the forum should now work again. So here's the long story:

In December of last year, my host announced to shut down at the end of February. Although I wasn't too happy about that, I planned to look for a new host in early February to have enough time to move all hosted sites without pressure.

On Friday evening (last week), all sites had suddenly disappeared from the net, showing the message about the account being suspended. I couldn't log in to my e-mail account, via FTP or even to the hosting administration frontend anymore. Of course, I immediately tried contacting both technical support and sales department to find out what the problem was.

On Saturday, a few of the hosted sites suddenly started working again. Others (including TGOD) didn't. I wrote yet another e-mail to technical support. Nothing happened on Sunday. Another e-mail sent. Nothing happened on Monday. Another e-mail sent.

When nothing happened on Tuesday, either, I got fed up, and I signed up with another host. I immediately got the login data, and started setting up the site again there, using the latest database backup (from about a week before the crash, so some recent forum posts have been lost, unfortunately). As for the forum script, I just uploaded what I presumed to be the correct version. It was late, the DNS wasn't yet resolving, so I didn't / couldn't properly check whether everything was working.

Today, I was glad to see the DNS was already resolving to the new server from my university. I also noticed several 'Internal Server Errors' in the forum, but I couldn't fix them without access to my home computer. So I did that when I got home.

Last, but not least, this new webserver has PHP compiled not as an Apache module, but as CGI, so I had to work out an alternative to the HTTP authentification I've been using for the admin sections so far.

Anyway, let's hope this server proves to be more stable and this hosting company more reliable than the last one. Again, report any errors when you find them. NetDanzr: Please contact me, then we'll set your site up again.

Good to see the site is slowly coming back. My daily browsing habits have been significantly confused during the past few days.

All problems I found user-side should be fixed now. There's still an issue with administration, but please also report any errors you get in the forum and on the site.

I'm working on it. Stay tuned, long explanation to follow.