jmoiron.net

All services will be terminated effective March 15, 2005. All active paypal subscriptions have been cancelled, so everyone should be receiving the full amount of hosting they have paid for, and possibly up to an additional two weeks. On the above mentioned date all DNS records will be removed. On March 20th, 2005 all relevant customer data will be deleted.

I don't really want to provide any information relayed to me which might have been in private, but the gist is that server that my site runs off of is basically a one man operation (run by a friend of mine) and he's not going to have enough time to handle dozens of service requests on top of a full time job. Over time my access to the server has become less (first I was jailed, then the jail was more restricted, etc..) to the point where his newest server was not planned to have any shell access for users. These plans were all probably scrapped when his automated user system plan failed and he was basically forced into shutting down his server.

My site should survive relatively unharmed. My domain name and a server that it points to (whichever or wherever that may be) probably won't be interrupted in the near future; in the mean time I have to decide what kind of hosting solution I want. I had actually been looking at 1u server rentals for some time now, since I was unhappy with the prospect of losing shell access. We'll see what the next month or two will bring, but there's a chance that this site (and subsequently any email sent to (anything)[at]jmoiron[dot]net) will go down for a small period of time.