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Unfortunately, this was not to prove the case for Waterlogged Productions. Apparently they've migrating the server (which Sam has never told me, assuming they ever told him) and, well, it hasn't actually worked, for some reason.

The first I knew of it was an e-mail earlier saying that our account had been suspended for excessive resource drain and/or excessive e-mails. The databases still work, but the web space points to 40inches.com instead. The control panel reports that we're in transition, but that it was to have been done days ago, and instead they've just killed the whole site off and blamed us for running it badly. The mail they sent about the suspension has Sam's address as the sender, and his and mine as the recipients, CC suspensions@globat.com; the generating server has no reverse DNS, although the HELO was plausible!

The ticket response time is around 24-48 hours; I tried live chat, but without Sam's credit card number, they refused to do anything and terminated the chat session. (I have the site password, but I can't get at anything secret, as the control panel is down; the guy didn't give a shit.)

So now I've followed his advice and filed a second ticket -- their staff don't really talk to each other and make you do all the work. I guess eventually they'll notice and put things back. Hopefully they won't have actually wiped the site like they did wetinred.com a few years ago. Fortunately Steve "only" had to re-upload 10 GB of clips! (Globat do these back up servers, such as when the InterWet USA ex-Webmaster -- you know who I mean -- tried to wipe the entire site via FTP. Very glad Globat had their backups sorted out, as I was actually watching the whole site vanish before my eyes in my FTP client!)

Pay peanuts, get monkeys, eh.