They cound have at least given me some notice, a warning, and a chance to rectify the problem! But no, they just turned off the account without saying a word. It took just under 2 weeks of harassing the support, by any means possible, emails, telephone calls, even another account to get access to the support form, and so on before I could get a proper reply as to why they’d cut me off. On the telephone they were no help, in fact giving me completely wrong information! In the end somebody replied with something usefull, and about 2 weeks later, I managed to get my account back on, with a bit more fighting, as even once I’d payed the bill in question that had been bounced, they still hadn’t turned the account back on, so I had to complain to the support a few more times to get them to do it! I’m gald it’s all over anyway, as it’d kill me to loose my domain names, already been through that once, never again!

But anyway, by the time I got my account back, about 6 of my domain names had expired. Sod’s law isn’t it, they would cut your account off just as you’re going to renew some of the domains! I did manage to get them all back though, except one, sillyproject.eu, which for some reason it won’t let me reregister, but that’s no great loss, I’m happy that everythings back to normal now. As I was renewing my various domain names, I thought I’d take the opportinity to snap up some new ones, so I am now the proud owner of 38 domain names, lol!

Here is the list of the domain names I own at the moment …

- buggerations.com
- cart-tec.fr
- d4n-team.com
- danielclayton.com
- danielclayton.me
- danielclayton.net
- danielclayton.org
- danzforum.net
- danzserv.com
- epicserv.com
- idliketo.be
- jonluck.com
- kimsufipas.com
- liveforsilly.com
- martysport.com
- mixpostcards.com
- nfactor.fr
- nitaclayton.com
- pringlez.com
- pwnage.fr
- sillynoodlz.net
- sillynoodlz.org
- sillyos.com
- sillypringlez.com
- sillypringlez.net
- sillypringlez.org
- sillyproject.com
- sillyproject.fr
- sillyproject.info
- sillyproject.net
- sillyproject.org
- sptr-team.com
- starofmymind.com
- starofmymind.net
- team-sptr.com
- theotherserv.com
- xr4iproject.com
- zombieserv.com

That’s quite a list isn’t it, lol. There’s some quite good ones in there too. Most of them just redirect to danielclayton.com though, until I find a better use for them anyway. You can make some pretty cool email addresses with those domain names as well, lol. It’s nice that i got back some of my old domain names that I’d given up a while back too, like sillynoodlz and xr4iproject. I just wish I could get sillynoodlz.com back, but some domain selling company got to it before I could and are asking some really stupid price for it, so that’s that really, not much I can do about that unfortunately …

Back in the days of SillyProject I had a top spec quad core server running flat out with about 50 games servers, web, email, radio, you name it, it ran it and never missed a beat. Once SillyProject came to an end (that’s a story for another day…), I downgraded to a cheaper Pentium 4 server on a 100 Mb connection, but found that a bit slow, so I went up a notch to a Core 2 Duo based server on a gigabit connection. That server was more or less perfect for what I was doing, being quick and having lots of space. I used it for hosting my own websites and some of my friends ones too, along with my streaming radio, a few small games servers and for downloading torrents, as it’s quicker than downloading them directly from home, lol.

But, anyway … cutting a long story short, the other month OVH changed their offers, and brought in this stupid new system. I guess they got sick of all the abuse their servers were getting, and they’ve now brought in a whole load of new security checks and stuff. The worst part is the new server offers though, with this different level of service bollocks, Platinum and Diamond and all that. Basically, it’s an excuse to double the price of the server you want, quite literally, as all you seem to get is a few extra IP addresses. They say you get better support and what not with it, but I’m very sceptical of that, their support is poor at the best of times, especially if you’re on Windows, where they couldn’t care less …

Anyway, enough ranting, as I’m sure you’re not interested, lol. In the end I decided to try out Dedibox, another french hosting company, who brought out a new range of pro servers just before OVH brought out their gay new offers. Dedibox’s pro server works out alot cheaper than OVH, as they only have one level of service, and their Windows licence is half the price too, and you get Server 2008 for that, not Server 2003! For the same hardware spec server at OVH, with the Diamond package, it is quite literally double the price of the Dedibox one! Not to mention that the Dedibox one has two gigabit connections, not just one like the OVH one. How OVH justify the price of that Diamond package is beyond me. Getting a new server from OVH was out of the question, and keeping my old Core 2 Duo one was out of the question too, as it was costing me more than the new Dedibox offer, which was twice the spec! So that’s how I ended up at Dedibox, and I must say, so far, touch wood, fingers crossed, and what not, I’ve had no problems at all, everything works like a dream! The specs of my Dedibox Pro server are quite impressive for the price, being an Intel Xeon Quad Core X3350 (4 x 2.66 Ghz), 8 Gb DDR2 ECC (Error Correction), dual 1Tb hard drives, dual gigabit connections and Windows Server 2008 Standard 64 Bit. So, there you go …