[Pierre-Marie Baty]

Well Nova, I am somehow suspecting that the guy lied to you. Why so, I don't have a clue. Like I told you, I was pinging the server continuously and I was also running traceroutes from time to time to ensure all was OK by my side. And I can tell you that at least the routers of greatnet.de were ALWAYS up and working, and the results of the last hop were alternatively: "ping timeout" for 1 or 2 minutes or so, and "no route to host" for 30 seconds. This is typical : the guys were shutting down the machine, unplugging wires, then plugging them again and checking whether it worked, then unplugging/shutting down again, then testing another thing, etc. They did this little comedy for more than one hour before it managed to work. I don't have a clue what they were up to, but it was clearly not just a bad fuse to replace.

Anyhow, what sort of manners are these ? If I were a hosting provider, I would AT LEAST send an email to my customers telling them that from time t1 to t2 I would bring their servers down for maintenance, so the customers could AT LEAST put a notification on their web servers to their users before the shutdown, politesse oblige, what do you think ?