Andrew Dubber     

My website New Music Strategies is offline. I’ve been getting a lot of email about that. So I’ve put together a stock response, and it gets emailed out to everyone who enquires. Essentially it explains the fact that I’m moving hosts, and the old guys are being generally unpleasant.

I was coming to the end of my contract with the old hosts, and all of my other sites (including this one) are hosted at GoDaddy. The idea was that I would do a seamless move from one to the other. That didn’t happen.

Instead, they’ve put the above holding page advertising crap in its place, and have presumably deleted the site. Fortunately, I’ve been taking daily backups of the database, so I can simply re-upload it in its last known state and continue from there.

My plan is that it’s back up by Monday. But that depends on whether I can get the domain transferred or not. At the moment, the rude people at my ex-hosting provider, who I’ve had significant problems with in the past, are refusing to answer my emails and aren’t very responsive to phone calls either.

It’s a bit of a pain, but hardly the end of the world, so I’m trying not to get too stressed by the whole thing.

I’m working on it.

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