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Alas, I knew thee well.
I’m not entirely sure whether I should be mentioning this online yet or not, but one of the helpful tech support associates at Hosting Puppy has informed me that their famous Buck-A-Gig hosting packages are henceforth discontinued, and remaining customers will be upgraded at the end of their last paid term. This news comes in the wake of several denial-of-service attacks, a few of which managed to bring HP to its knees for a brief time.
According to statements made by Hosting Puppy representatives on the WebHostingTalk.com forums, these attacks were mostly the fault of some unruly customers, and their customer support forum appears to confirm this. At $1 CAD per month for a gig of webspace and 10GB of bandwidth, you’re sure to attract all kinds of folk, and apparently this deal brought in a bad crowd — hackers, spammers, all manner of malicious cyber-beings. Soon a miniature war had begun, and things spiraled from that point on.
This story deeply affects AnObviousHack.com, because as noted on the About page, this site is proudly hosted with Hosting Puppy. Thankfully I managed to get in just before the program was discontinued, so any worries about new hosting won’t happen until February 17 of next year, but if you know of anywhere that offers reliable support and healthy performance at a comparable price, please don’t hesitate to comment or shoot me an e-mail.
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