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[Jeff Wilhelm]

Do you have any other sites with them?

If so, you could threaten to pull them. If the revenue from the other sites
exceeds $20 they'd be stupid to fight with you.

Alternatively, you could just pay them for the data (if you really need it;
you don't have a local copy?) and then never go back to that company.

I mean, the ball is in their court. They have the data. You want it. You
have to play by their rules (as dumb as they may be) or else they may --
OOPS -- drop the tape in the lake.

Jeff


----Original Message----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org
[mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of Joseph
Crawford Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 2:15 PM To:
NYPHP Talk Subject: [nycphp-talk] [ OT ] Web Hosting Gone Bad

> Guys,
> 
> i had a web host that was a reseller, they went under and
>  thier servers taken back by the company who sold them
> the space, there was no warning for this happening at
> all.  now the new company wants to charge me $20 to get
> my files back....  is this even legal to do? all files on
> my account were written by me therefore they are my
> property. I mean this sounds to me the equivilence to
> walking into thier datacenter taking one of thier servers
> then saying hah you want it you have to pay me to get it
> back.        
> 
> what steps should i take in this situation?  I have
> contacted support and they continue to say they are going
> to charge me now way around it, because thier tech has to
> run a tar command and email me the files, which on a
> properly setup linux box could probably all be done on
> one line.