I don’t know if you are like me, but I get a lot of email.
A lot of email.
As I triage it, I look at subject lines and senders and decide whether to read it now, or later.
So when I got a message from my host provider about a week ago, I assumed a bill was due and that I would pay it when I had some time on a weekend.
Big mistake.
I’m in Cleveland as I type this, fresh from a Web search to see if anyone could find out what was going on with my provider.
Here’s what’s going on: They went under.
Unfortunately, since I did not act fast enough, they took everything with them.
I am rebuilding now, but I believe we will be starting from scratch with the forum. New user registrations, etc.
UncleLar is going to kill me. That database had not been backed up in weeks. If not months. Rest assured, heads have already rolled.