hi jon
it's very unlikely to be of use, but i know
of other people who have been left high and
dry in similar circumstances and i have a
degree of sympathy.
if you come across anyone who has a need to
provide managed and reliable hosting (linux,
php, mysql) on a short-term basis then we
have plenty of space and bandwidth to offer.
no charge for (reasonable) maintenance.
like i say, it's not likely to be all that
helpful, but it's there if it's needed.
regards
ed
Jon Pratty wrote:
> We've had a call from a charitable museum sector organisation who have
> their website hosted by Techmerit, a UK firm who appear to have gone
> into liquidation over the last few days.
>
> 24 Hour Museum is not looking into this journalistically, but we'd be
> interested in hearing from anyone else out there in the museum and
> gallery sector who are also serviced by Techmerit.
>
> As a result of the current situation, it seems there are several
> organisations who are currently 'locked out' of their websites, and
> unable to update content. In one case, the site owners tell us their
> site was taken down, and content and assets (paid for with public money)
> are not available to them.
>
> We're not in the business of making mischief here - if anyone from
> Techmerit cares to get in touch and refute the news that they appear to
> be in liquidation, then fine. If there are more prosaic reasons for the
> sites that contacted us being locked out then we'll leave it at that.
>
> In the meantime, contact me off list if you like, and we can see if
> there are alternative avenues to help those affected by the collapse. It
> would be great to make use of some of the expertise of MCG members if we
> can, I think.
>
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