Hi Claude
Welcome aboard!
On reading your email, the first thing I did was check his site. Sure enough, it was down. Then, being a professional webmaster, I used the tools at my disposal to track down the reason. I couldn't believe it when I found that the simple answer was that his domain name had expired had not been renewed.
This is something that we webmasters live in dread of. For whatever reason, a renewal reminder goes missing and/or we forget to take action; the domain lapses then the website dissapears. You may not even notice it immediately if its a low-traffic site. Then you go past the redemption period and either have to fork out hundreds and hundreds of dollars to get the name back, or start from scratch. Thank God that we have automated systems for our clients that automatically renew all domains by default.
Anyway, Sheppy's domain/site are nothing to do with me, but it still put me into a panic. I thought he probably didn't know. So, I telephone him. All is not lost - he isn't suffering from Tobagoitis and simply ignoring emails. He had received a renewal reminder but had lost his credit card. Its in the process of being sorted today, but it will probably take a couple of days before the site reappears.
As regards your enquiry, he remembers your email - although he says he received it on Friday, so maybe you sent it after business-close on Thursday evening. He thought he had replied, but I've left him searching his system. He will either reply or send another copy of his original reply. I'm afraid that the local TSTT Internet provider is notorious for either 'eating' emails or delaying delivery for days, but one way or the other its in hand now.
