Jatol.com Disappears, Stranding Customers

J Cardella writes "On August 31, Jatol.com — a hosting company that had operated for five years, providing excellent support and reasonable prices — disappeared, leaving hundreds, if not thousands of people without access to their Web content and email. There is speculation that Jatol may have stopped paying their host, Fastservers. The evidence is that Fastservers has been turning off the machines with Jatol's customers' content. Jatol had already collected September hosting fees from their customers (including myself). The story gets stranger. The owner of Jatol.com, Tim Tooley, has also disappeared. He was apparently very ill for some time, and speculation on the thread goes from his skipping the country to lying dead in his home. Fastservers apparently is unwilling to turn the machines back on, so people could get their content, without authorization from Tooley."

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[athdemo]

Hey! My mother got hosting from them, you insensitive clod!

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[andreyw]

Yes. Please tag this whocares. How did this ever even make it to the front page?

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[Yo Grark]

But won't somebody think of the children?

Just claim that fastservers is illegally holding IP content and that the DCMA covers your right to content.

Hey, while they're at it, maybe they can make a law making it illegal to shut down webservers so that people can get those electronic packets. Don't they have rights? :P

Yo Grark