At 02:55 PM 1/19/01 -0500, patricia wrote:
>is it possible that there is somewhere on the net that tracks
>or retains this sort of information ???
the short answer is no.
>my website domain name is now directed to the IP### from HOSTTWO.
That means all the routing tables have been updated across the
internet to direct requests to www.yoursite.com to a specific IP
address. There's no going back.
>problem is they can't seem to FIND my original IP ###.
>
>problem being they say -- that I was on a shared virtual server.
Not that they CAN'T find your original IP address, it's just that
there's no "expedient" way for you to access your old site -- not to
the old host's liking anyway.
First, they may have deleted your entire site from the server. But
that's easily remedied with a restore from a back-up tape (or CD),
but that means extra work for those people.
Second, if they haven't deleted your directory, they can grant you
access through their "main" server, since your site is but a
directory on that server. (That's the essence of virtual hosting:
many sites on a single server, most likely sharing a single IP
address.) But this also means extra work for them. It also means
giving access to someone who's no longer a customer.
I wouldn't do it either, if I were your old host.
>I used FrontPage98 to create the site.
>I've looked in there -- the site disappeared when I tried
>to open the site live with my domain name. the new shell
>information that HOSTTWO has UP on my domain name
>is all that is coming through now... everything in FrontPage98
>seems to have been erased (as far as the original site goes).
It's possible that your site is still there in FrontPage, but you are
the only one who can determine that. And that's the problem with
FrontPage (a problem that's was visited recently here in this forum),
it keeps the user from having to look under the proverbial hood, and
when your car broke down, you don't even know how to unlatch the
hood, much less tinkering with the things in there.
Alan's advice is sound. Always keep a local back-up. And to that I
add this: learn how to maintain your new site with an ftp client. You
will be infinitely happier with the speed of file transfer when you
update your site, instead of having to use that lame-brained "Publish
Web" tool in FP. And you won't ever have to go through this panic
again.
Good luck!
Duc
