Nathan Weinberg, the dude behind Inside Google and Inside Microsoft is in big, big, big troubles. His webhost Vizaweb had a catastrophic meltdown. Only one site hosted with them has so far posted about their success in migrating to a new host in the aftermath. Not much is known about the downtime, and whether Vizaweb will be back or not. All of you might now be saying “so what?” except for the fact that they hosted Nathan Weinberg’s entire Blog News Channel (a small dozen of blogs). I wrote over 300 posts for that network. Dammit. How can a host just disappear and not let anyone know about this?
All of his associated blogs are down, including InsideGoogle, InsideMicrosoft, and Jason’s AppleWatch blog. He has no backups. Right now he is in bad sorts as the blog is the only source of income for him and his wife, and if anyone can help he needs it right now.
“I need (a) money, if anyone is interested in donating (b) a job, if I can’t save the site, to start earning money and (c) free legal advice, if I can subpoena my data and sue these idiots.” -Nathan Weinberg
So if you have money to spare, a job for him to work his ass off at, know a way to restore a site in any capacity through the google cache, or can offer free legal advice please contact Nathan ASAP at montevino [AT] hotmail [DOT] com.
The man will be grateful. Incredibly grateful.
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Robin Wauters
November 10, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Seems to be up again
Coolz0r
November 10, 2006 at 5:06 pm
Apparently it went back up 20 minutes ago. I informed Nathan so he could pull out his gear asap. Lord knows how long they’ll pull it this time.
Nathan Weinberg
November 10, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Miel, you aren’t answering my IMs….
Brendan
November 10, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Get away from VizaWeb as quickly as possible.
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