Well that was fun. No not the game. Haven’t played the game (or any video game for that matter for donkey’s). The message boards got hit by the friggin phpbb worms attack and so my hosting service decided to suspend my account. Yeah like I said fun. I’ll tell you what’s annoying, having sent an e-mail asking them to unsuspend so that you can do a 10 minute job and the whole process taking over a day to sort out.

Another thing that was annoying was the fact that they didn’t mention this to me, just up and did it so yesterday morning I wake up with YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED.

I didn’t care so much about a lot of things, like the messages on the board while nice, only server one specific purpose and that was to help people out, but it’s not the end of the world if they’re gone, however my blog posts see that was a different situation altogether. I initially was getting a bit upset, but calmed down after like 2 minutes of thinking about it, as a rational human being, and wrote them a nice long e-mail.

Really bad because I had loads I wanted to write about yesterday, momentum’s gone though, hopefully it’ll pick up today.

It was pretty funny though, my brother gave me a ring last night to check that I was OK based on whether or not my website was up or not. Damn I must talk about it a bit too much on the outside. What can I say, it’s currently my main method of expression and I’m very protective of the place. Which reminds me to download the MySQL database. I think I’m going to do that every month. Just to be sure. It’ll probably take 5 minutes a month, but at least anything the hosting company does won’t hit me too hard.

I’ve already told them that I’m going to be leaving at the end of the contract, so they’ve stopped the automatic billing. I’ve got several alternatives up my sleeve, and I’ll see which one I go for, although to be honest Dreamhost seems like the one to beat right now, especially with their New Years offers on.

Update: And I thought I had problems. Acta Divina has apparently been hacked into and killed. They’re shutting down because of this. That’s huge news for the Design community as it was between them, Media Temple and 2advanced.