My hosted account at Bluehost.com (on box194) was down for about ten hours today. I’m not hugely fussed as I wasn’t hosting anything of particular importance, or that I needed to rely on at the time. This is however the day on which I launch the twitter grouping bot, so it served as a fair reminder that I probably shouldn’t be relying on Bluehost for something which needs to have a 24/7 presence.

Apparently there had been an error with one of the hard disks in the server (I found this out by checking the server status myself), and I had been affected. Anyway, I lost nothing.

The factor which bugs me most here is that Bluehost did nothing at all to get in touch with me, apparently opting instead to hope that I wasn’t in the habit of actually checking or using my web space.

Is there any web host which you would care to reccommend? I know Alex Muller hosts at Nearly Free Speech, and would recommend it.