Over for now.

[melfra]

What a relief; I finally got through to Dreamhost after emailing them all weekend. They agreed to get rid of their hold on the domain as long as I agreed to delete all of the content on the site, which I had been prepared to do since I already had a full backup on my computer. It was still kind of frustrating, deleting all of that information and

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[hiroto]

I probably missed this, but why do you have to remove your content?

and I'm hosted with Surpass, and they're cheap and good. At least they've always been good to me.

[melfra]

I'd always thought it was the hostee's place to deal with copyright infringement, but apparently Dreamhost has a habit of arbitrarily removing content they deem inappropriate. One case I saw involved an artist who had uploaded backups of their own artwork and ended up with a suspended account because Dreamhost decided it was some kind of "copyright infringement". In our case, the way they handled the whole thing was a little unexpected, since all they really did was disable HTTP access (rendering the subdomain useless) and left all of the data intact but just renamed the root folder.

Anyway, I contacted them and they said the only way they'd reinstate the subdomain (so I could redirect to another site- they wouldn't even let me delete the damn thing) was if I deleted every last file on the account. So I backed everything up, and CLICK. Like I said, depressing, even though I had backups.

But thanks for the site info- I'm looking into basically every service I can find right now. Can I ask how they are with speed and downtime?

[hiroto]

wow...this is the first time I've heard such bad things from dreamhost, everyone else says they're wonderful

Surpass is pretty good to me, I rarely have downtimes. Maybe a few minutes realyl late at night once in a long while, but that's it.

Good luck finding a new host.