My webpage died

I've had a website for a few years. The server was apparently owned by an individual rather than a hosting company. Things went along fine until late last year when I started having problems with the site. I emailed the guy and got no response. This seemed kind of strange because up until then, I had always gotten rapid responses from this guy, whose name was John.

Well, after a couple of weeks of trying to contact John, I did a little research on his name and found out he had died. I couldn't find out what the circumstances of his death were, but it was pretty obvious that he was gone. It was then that I realized that John didn't have any kind of backup plan for his web hosting service. Maybe the server was in his basement, I don't really know.

At any rate, without somebody to maintain things, my website continued to deteriorate until it no longer worked at all. And I'm paid up until this September so not only did I lose my website, I also lost a little money. I don't hold this against John, but it would have been nice if his web hosting business was more than just a one man operation.

The moral of this story is that if you are going to open a website, be sure you do it with a company that is operated by more than one man.

I still have my domain name and I could open my site again with another web hosting service, but I just haven't gotten around to doing that yet. I guess I keep hoping that somebody will come to the rescue of John's web hosting service, which was http://2serveu.net/.