Bloghosts is going out of business, and this has created a big mess for a lot of bloggers. It seems that Jace Herring, the proprietor of Bloghosts, registered everybody's domains in his name, which means that now they all have to be reregistered, and all of the reregistrations have to go through him. Since Jace has been flooded with thousands of these reregistration requests, it's likely that some of the names will not be reregistered before Bloghosts' servers go down at the end of the year. Even if he does get them all done, it will leave precious little time for people to make new hosting arrangements.
I mention this because it's meant major changes for a couple blogs I read frequently. One is Todd Price's A Frolic of My Own, which has simply vanished from the net at this point -- Todd has come to the conclusion that the old address is unsalvageable and is trying to move the site to an entirely new location. Too Many Chefs is having the same problem (although it's still up at the moment) and is already mirrored at toomanychefs.net, if you want to change your links now.
For my part, I'll probably have to relocate the opera website if Jace doesn't get back to me, which is a major annoyance, but fortuantely I had at least registered locussolus.com in my own name before this whole fiasco. So, moving this site's hosting from Bloghosts to Hosting Matters over the wknd was pretty uneventful (although if you noticed a service interruption, this is why).
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