I had several sites hosted at Blazernetwork for about a year or so. Service was reasonable, not great. Email outages were too frequent but at least they'd get repaired and we'd be up and running again soon after. Not this time. Last Friday afternoon email and web services went off the air and they haven't returned since (it's Tuesday now). All attempts to reach them were fruitless. Apparently they let their domain name expire. Not a good thing when that's needed to translate names into IP addresses.
Thankfully I was able to figure out the IP addresses for the Blazer machines where my stuff is hosted. An old email had the IP address of the mail host and it's still running so I could copy my IMAP folders over to my local computer. I then wrote a simple Perl script that uses wget to attempt retrieval of a file using ftp in the address range of the email server (assuming a 24 bit subnet mask). I then transfered all my files. Finally I needed a copy of my MS SQL database so I wrote another Perl script that attempts to open a socket on the MS SQL port number in that same range of IP addresses. Bingo!
I now use
http://www.bananahosting.com which appears to work fine for now. I hope it stays that way as moving websites really is a pain. Luckily it uses HSphere so the learning curve isn't that great. It's a small shop but Johnny is on the ball and provides great support in his forums.