Well, folks I just emerged from a behind the scenes nightmare. MMP, and the other sites that are hosted on my webserver almost vanished into the vast depths of cyberspace today. As many of you are aware, I'm really busy with my new job/life. I travel non stop, work long hours, and are usually busy after work doing miscellaneous things. Today, I noticed that my dave@ozskier.com account hasn't been getting e-mail for the past 3-4 weeks. Normally, this e-mail merges into my dave@freeskier.com address and it is all merged into one inbox to keep my e-mail more organized and simple. I cracked open my mail app and sorted my e-mail from the past month by address... No e-mail to the dave@ozskier.com box. That is odd, typically I get 10-20 e-mails a day to that address. 5 of which being spam, 10 being comments to approve for MMP and the other 5 being general BS from friends. Come to think of it, nobody has responded to any of the e-mails that I have been sending either. Splendid.

So, I figure there is something wrong with my webserver. I crack open the ol' address book and give the people a ring... Number disconnected. Hmm, odd. Maybe I have the number wrong. I head over to their website, the client login is taken down and all phone numbers and e-mails have been removed. Now I start to panic. Thankfully, several years ago I asked for the exact geographic location of my server so I would know where it sits. I then headed to google maps and found the location, the businesses in the building and found the company that owns my actual webserver. Time to get tricky on these mo-fo's.

I knew that the people that I was paying my web hosting were a 3rd party, and apparently they had skipped town and folded the business. Don't worry, they were still charging my credit card, ugh. And since my e-mail has been down for the past 3 weeks I was not getting ANY of the e-mails associated with the demise of the company. Thankfully the new people I'm hosting with apologized for the problem, recognized it as their fault, corrected the problem and as a thank you increased by monthly hosting to a ludicrous number and pretty much gave me unlimited bandwidth for MMP. The icing on the cake is that it is now $5 bucks cheaper per month. Sweet.

So, if you've been sending me e-mail to dave@ozskier.com for the past month, I didn't get your e-mail. The e-mail address is up and working now in a separate inbox just in case there is another problem. MMP is here to stay and won't be going anywhere... Just to be sure I did a full site backup this morning to my local computer to be super safe.

So, that's it. MMP was almost wiped out this morning thanks to some shiesty ass-hats who skipped town and screwed their customers. If you sent an e-mail over the past month, send it again. And I will go through my outbox and re-send the dozens of e-mails that apparently nobody got thanks to this freakin' mess. You know, they were nothing major just stuff about my trip, e-mails to family and other non Freeskier ski related stuff.

MMP is with a new host and safe for now. Needless to say, it was a very stressful morning.

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