@Simon Painter
using the highly top secret phrase "password", boy the terrorists will never think of using the obvious!
4 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Dec 2007
I once worked for a multi-national company, in the UK marketing team they had a total of 10 people. 8 of them were managers, recently before fleeing this place (as nothing ever got done, too many cheifs and not enough indians) the higher management types realised what a joke it had become and trimmed the fat a bit.
Now there are 7 managers and one non-manager. Problem solved!
.. or at least that's what I've gathered from some of the above comments. It amazes me that anybody would plop down any kind of "business critical" website on a hosting provider which will sell you space and bandwidth for less than a cheap bottle of Tesco Value Plonk. What did you expect? You might as well be hosting your company off of an AOL account (and using their members.aol.com/YOURREALLYLONGUSERNAMEHERE123456 web space).
As for there not being enough warning, I feel as somebody with a fairly good grasp of the English language the term "EMERGENCY" usually indicates the reasoning behind it.
As for me I can wait for the letter to come in the post so I can log in and renew my two expiring domains (which are both mission critical, expiring tonight at 22.59 and will cause 18 children to become orphans in south Lincoln).