Why do I hate my former webhost? The 72 hour outage.

The hard drive on the server that hosts my websites “died” - to quote my former webhost - a few days ago and that’s the reason internet128.com has been offline for 72 hours. 72 hours. How is it even possible to keep a server down for 72 hours? Do you position a sniper outside the server room with instructions to shoot anybody who tries to enter the room? Or do you simply lean back and enjoy the turkey and gravy?

Additional, hopefully minor, glitches, are to be expected over the next couple of days as I move to another host. One of my former webhosts customer service representatives wrote me during the outage: “Once the sites are moved to the new server you shouldn’t have ANY problems with the new server.” She is right about that.

Update: And now that I’ve moved to a new server I’ve added “former” in front of webhost.