Hey there, apologies for the downtime, my hosting company (burtonhosting.com – avoid) rather inconveniently went bust – at least I assume so, no-one answered phones or replied to emails and all their websites were incontactable for 10 days. I have moved the fnarr.net domain elsewhere and am now trying to resurrect it from backups.  Fun it wasn’t.

In case it’s happening to anyone else, here’s how to retrieve your domain name from a zombie company (fnarr.net was registered to me c/o BurtonHosting, but with them not answering emails/phones etc, it proved difficult to wrest control of my domain away from them, involving sending passport photocopies to tucows, their upstream DNS provider.)  It’s a real shame as they used to be a great host, with some excellent support staff… but the no-warning shutdown leaves a very sour taste.  What’s odd is that BH has been having problems apparently since early 2008 (!) and I never noticed…

Update: WordPress is up and mostly successfully running.  Alas I have had no such luck with importing the FinderPop Support Forum phpBB2 backup into the phpBB3 install on my new host.  For now I’ve just gotten the new Support Forum up and running, but the 100-odd ex-users of the old Support Forum will not be pleased at having to enter their info again!  Apologies :-/

Update2: Burtonhosting is apparently back online, maybe someone rebooted their servers.  However they’re still not answering emails and their support forum is still broken.  Stay away!

Update3: Looks like Mr. BurtonHosting is “taking a different direction in life and as such I have decided to transition my business to Global Net Access.” Bit late for me and the fact that this is the first piece of communication I’ve had from them for nearly six months (when they happily took my money for the next 3 years worth of hosting) means they can bugger right off. Slinks off to make voodoo doll of Mr. Burtonhosting