Just seen this post at Upstart Blogger.  This guy must be crazy.  Either that or he’s loaded.  He’s now giving away a free Mac Book Air and five free iPhones.All you have to do it link to his site to get a chance of winning.  Sounds like a good idea to me and anyway, who doesn’t love freebies?

Thanks to everyone who has sent in messages of support regarding my recent fight with Dreamhost.  I just wish I’d had time to get everything back online before I got stumbledupon and got over 6,000 visitors in one day.I’d like to say a special thanks to the gorgeous Abi Titmuss, who found my story linked from Upstart Blogger while she was applying for a blogging job at Upstart Blogger’s new project Infinite Critique.I still haven’t got anywhere with the backup situation and Dreamhost are still ignoring all of my emails.  Hopefully, if I can generate enough traffic, they will have no choice but to sit up and listen.  So, if you are reading this and feel like submitting it to Digg or Stumbleupon of any other place like that then please do so.  Together we might just be able to force Dreamhost to come clean about what they have done. 

Today I get this email from the wonderful Jeff at Dreamhost,I notice you have posted a derogatory comment on your blog about our service.  If you do not remove this notice within 14 working days we will take action to remedy the situation.I can only assume that this is some sort of legal threat.  Well, Jeff, I’m not going to take it down.  My host is happy with it so I don’t see what you can do.  I’m sure going to have fun watching you squirm though. In the meantime I still have no access to working backups not any support whatsoever from the Dreamhost clowns.  

I’ve been blogging for almost ten years. May 1st 2008 would have been my 10 year blog anniversary. The full story will have to wait until another day since today I have more pressing things on my mind. Dreamhost have deleted almost ten years of blog posts.Dreamhost closed my account a few days ago, claiming I had posted a defamatory article. I’ll post the article at a later date to prove just how ridiculous their decision was. I’m confident my host, the fabulous and wonderful AN Hosting, will be more than happy for me to post the few paragraphs that Dreamhost found so offensive.Where have the ten years worth of blog posts gone? I have even been denied access to the backup files.Of course, I kept regular backups of my blog, using the backup functions within the Dreamhost control panel. It is only now that I discover just how useless those backups are. The files are corrupt and no amount of fiddling can prise the information I need from their messed up innards.Thankfully, any files I uploaded are backed up properly. I regularly took backups via FTP. But that doesn’t solve the problem of having no Wordpress database backup and it doesn’t solve the problem of ten years of blogging being flushed down the drain.Dreamhost could fix this problem if they wanted to. They could provide me with a recent and working copy of my database since I’m sure they still have a copy. I doubt a company like Dreamhost ever completely purges its backups, especially given the amount of time the servers seem to crash. But no, they steadfastly refuse to help. All of my emails, after the initial exchange when they first deleted my account a few days ago, are ignored.