Paul,

Apparently Damien Jones' server is not functioning

Correct, due to a hard drive that was becoming more and more damaged and that, due to more pressing matters, I did not have time to deal with. There are actually some things more important than fractals and web sites.

or he has forgot to pay his Internet connection fee.

Come now Paul, that's just speculation on your part. And wrong too, since the bill is paid automatically and I personally know the host; he would call me if there was a problem with the billing before shutting me off. But it was a hardware failure in any case.

Because, all of the email discussion lists, all of the Domain Names hosted, and anything else run from there stopped working around midnight (CST) of April 28th.

That's true. Email service has been restored, and access to web sites is partially restored, at least for now, but the underlying faulty hardware has not yet been replaced.

What is rather interesting is the fact that Frederik moved the UF domain away from Damien's server to his own location just a matter of days before.  Did he have "insider knowledge" of what was going to happen??

Traffic for Frederik's site has been growing steadily and for some time he's been contemplating moving his site to a different host. At the same time, I've become increasingly busy professionally and have not had the same amount of time to attend to hosting needs. Since neither of these trends seems likely to change, we both recognized a couple of weeks ago that it was time for ultrafractal.com to new hosting. So yes, in a sense, he had inside knowledge, because I hosted him for ten years and I do actually tell him what's going on. You, on the other hand, do not have inside knowledge.

I've been pleased to be able to provide hosting to many fractal-related projects over the years; I started doing it when decent hosting was difficult to come by and/or expensive. Hosting is now very easy to come by, and I no longer have the time to do what I used to do. I'm content with my role changing because I know nothing lasts forever.

--Damien