Just to let my visitors know, Adland has had to move this weekend to another server hosted in a safe place. My last ISP was dutchweb.nl and hosting there was not only expensive, but also very unsafe. Commercial-archive and some of the other domains I own might take a few hours to catch up.

I paid quite a lot of money for a server which allowed me the space and bandwidth to host adland, commercial-archive, and all other little things I play with , and the agreement was that the ISP would leave my machine alone as I performed all necissary administrative tasks.

They didn't leave the machine alone.

On Thursday they even took it upon themselves to delete all the users on my machine. This is quite stupid for a lot of reasons. A) The data they deleted did not belong to them and they had no right to delete it - making their action a crime.B) Some "users" set up on the machine were actually demons performing tasks.. Like the user "mailman" which hosted the adlist. In other words, more data than simply only userdata was lost, and more processes in the machine were relying on these users to exist, causing a nice chainreaction mess for me to clean up.

This is not the first time this ISP has taken it upon himself to delete things. Only a month ago he installed something I did not need and did not want - and it changed settings in some files, making the commercial-archive.com useless as suddenly none of the Quicktime movies nor the Real Audio files would play in the browser.

I'll leave the rest of the slimey details alone for now. I have reported the incident to the police - as the ISP insists this was not done by them but by a hacker. A hacker that bothered to make himself look exactly like my ISP before causing damage on my server.
Naturally I don't trust them as far as I can throw them. And neither should you.

Ps for the old gang - this new machine has been named "acme".