Today we experienced technical difficulties, such that our web host company suspended our account (and all of our other domains). You may have seen this screen:
| Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible. |
They tell me that this was done “because of a large quantity of spam sent to your account”. I’ve heard of suspending accounts of Spammers (those who send spam) but this is the first time I’ve heard of suspending victims of spam.
The long and short of it is that we were persuaded to upgrade to a ‘Virtual Private Server’ which (we hope) will be able to stand up more effectively against the onslaught of spammers.
Please bear with us as we may continue to experience difficulty over the weekend until the account is fully migrated.
I’d post a picture, but the sight of me, grinding and gnashing my teeth for seven hours is probably not safe for work or families with small children. As a programmer, experiencing this kind of problem is particularly painful, as God teaches me more much-needed humility. Arrrghhh!
I wonder if your comment contest sparked this whole “spam” incident.LOL
Lisa
UGH…. it’s SO FRUSTRATING when things like that go haywire! We’ve been having some internet problems as well and just about the time I get frustrated enough to call the support line it starts working again!
Oh, no!! What will we do for our ‘Edgren blog fix’ now??
I love you. Is camp still going on? When do you go back home? Surely Tim has joined you at Duckabush now and the gamming is ON. Love, Aunt Kate
I had a different message that I can’t remember now, but I’m glad you are back up!