The Smug Baldy Speaks

We are in the process of moving the Smug Baldy Speaks to a new host, since our old host was apparently doing some shady business. It turns out that the old host, who I won’t name, sent a letter to all of its customers saying,

In order to continue offering the best in equipment and network practices, we constantly conduct data center audits to keep you, our valued customer, on top of the latest innovation the market can provide.

In keeping with this practice, we have determined the server your VPS is hosted on requires an immediate upgrade to avoid service interruption due to potential hardware failure.

To avoid any potential service degradation and to simply provide you with the fastest solution, we had to schedule an immediate migration to a new server that already meets those performance requirements as previously mentioned to keep you in best practices.

This affects your VPS and this is what you need to be aware of:

- This means that the IP Addresses you were using have been changed.

Your NEW IPs for the VPS are as follows:

And the email continued, listing my new IP address and other pertinent account information. After a four long days, I was finally able to get back into my account, and everything seemed fine. That is, until I saw that another customer posted an email they received on a web hosting forum. Lo and behold, they too required an immediate upgrade. On further digging, it appeared that our hosting provider was sold to another company - and my user account with it.

Normally, that wouldn’t bother me too much, but this whole thing looked like a scam. Why not simply tell your customers what’s going on instead of making up some cock and bull story about “offering the best in equipment and network practices”? Seriously - it would have been ok if they hadn’t lied to me.

So we’re moving over to a new server and hosting provider, and thing are looking better. Let me know if you see any problems with the site.