Gandi, our French host, cancelled our service and deleted all server content in under 48 hours. They gave me no chance to backup anything, no notice, no nothing. I got a badly worded message telling me to go fuck myself and when I asked for a refund they told me this: As an exceptional commercial gesture, we refund you $168 for less than 2 days worth of hosting. I'm pretty sure that doesn't constitute an exceptional commercial gesture and rather constitutes a desire not to commit fraud. I was not expecting Gandi to drop us like that and made a mistake by only having one existing copy of our scripts. As a result, we're missing a considerable amount of custom content and I've probably lost all twitter archive content for the Lolcow Wiki. Shit happens. So at this point we're going to have to enter Encyclopedia Dramatica mode. I'm moving our server to an unknown place and I'm going to be doing things I cannot detail to ensure its longevity. Despite our forum being completely legal and distributing absolutely no illegal content ever, it is somehow possible to get a host to shit their pants via an email. I want to remind you that this site has operated for 3 years and this is not the first attempt that has been made to shut us down. We've survived felony DoS attacks and at no point ever did anyone think to email our host and say "these guys are mean". Apparently that's all it takes in today's world to remove a website. All peripheral services are down for right now, except email accounts. I will slowly begin restoring things over the week but I have a lot of dust to clear before that can happen. Apologies for the inconvenience. We'll recover.
Of course the French shit their pants at the first sign of danger. For real though, that's really shitty. Thanks for keeping it all going, Null.
I see chat is gone; have we lost all scripting for that? ALSO REMOVE ALL FRENCH CONTENT FROM THIS SITE RIGHT FUCKING NOW
From what I noticed, chat, ratings and off-topic are all gone. Nvm, I just heard ratings were gone, but looks like people are rating things, I have no way to completely know.
I feel so seriously cucked right now. So much great material lost. Google Cache is what remains of some of it.
I would say I wouldn't expect a community for sociopaths to get this monumentally butthurt and vindictive, but given it's really a community for insecure social outcasts who try to groom badass personas around themselves I can't say I'm surprised at all they've been trying to do this. But the Kiwi Hydra will never die.
@Null do the Farms need financial assistance at the moment? I noticed that the forum will seemingly still let me buy the $20 permanent Supporter status even though I'm on the monthly gig. I'd be willing to chip in the $20 if it'll help. I donated when Chris blew his house up, so I think I can reach into my pockets again and donate when the Farms themselves are in trouble.
