HostingZoom Takes urlShort Offline (updated)

Up until today, Maverick Revolution and its services including imgUp and urlShort have been hosted by HostingZoom.Then around 11am (central) today HostingZoom took the urlShort subdomain (u.mavrev.com) offline, without any prior notification. Citing concerns of "abuse/spam links" being spread using urlShort, they decided in their infinite wisdom to just block off access both for our users, and for our FTP access. HostingZoom has effectively cut-off nearly 2,000,000 (2 million) URLs which are being clicked on around 5,000,000 (5 million) times per month. I can understand if they had a problem with links (which they claim we should have "filtered", which is damn near impossible), except the terms of service that urlShort users agree to is that links that abuse our service can be removed at any time, if they are reported by users. However, we have not received any reports from users (other than 20th Century Fox) for removal of any URLs. In addition HostingZoom did not contact us before deciding to cut off access. We're working on moving to a new server at Linode, because quite frankly HostingZoom sucks. Please, if you've used urlShort in the past, contact HostingZoom and let them know that they suck. A lot. Thanks. Follow @mavrev on Twitter to stay updated as we move to restore service to urlShort.

So, HostingZoom are being complete dicks, and ignoring our requests for access to our own data. The earliest point at which we will be able to move to the Linode server is this coming Friday. Sorry.

After 73h 15m of downtime, urlShort is back online. We will be moving to our Linode server sometime Sunday.