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A couple of years ago, I was casting about for a cheap, reliable web host, and hit pay dirt. I wound up hosting a couple of sites with the company, and recommending it to friends.

The owner of the service seemed very hands on, handling technical aspects of supporting the site as well as a great deal of client support personally. He handled a number of matters for me, and was always very complimentary.

Lately, as some readers have no doubt noticed, the loading of the site has been extremely slow at times, a problem at the server end. Consequently, there were hints on the support boards at the hosting service of some sort of family tragedy that was affecting performance.

Today, that tragedy was made public. It turns out that the owner/administrator of the hosting company passed away in February. His wife, who is running the company now, sent out a short email to clients. This came as a bit of a shock. But what came as even more of shock was that he was ONLY 29. I had assumed from email conversations and the high level of competence that he was older.

The hosting service has things flying today. But after the announcement earlier, that seems a bit trivial.

[Posted at 17:14 CST on 04/19/02] [Link]