up with such an ispthere is not much recourse but to change providersand that often implies change of web addresses ss imaginethoughthat you are an 'reilly author and have published your website' address in multiple books sold widely all over the world what do you do when your isp' service level requires site changenotifying each of the hundreds of thousands of readers out there isn' exactly practical solution probably the best you can do is to leave forwarding instructions at the old site for some reasonably long period of time--the virtual equivalent of "we've movedsign in storefront window on the websuch sign can also send visitors to the new site automaticallysimply leave page at the old site containing hyperlink to the page' address at the new sitealong with timed auto-relocation specifications with such forward-link files in placevisitors to the old addresses will be only one click or few seconds away from reaching the new ones that sounds simple enough but because visitors might try to directly access the address of any file at your old siteyou generally need to leave one forward-link file for every old file--html pagesimagesand so on unless your prior server supports autoredirection (and mine did not)this represents dilemma if you happen to enjoy doing lots of mindless typingyou could create each forward-link file by hand but given that my home site contained over html files at the time wrote this paragraphthe prospect of running one editor session per file was more than enough motivation for an automated solution page template file here' what came up with first of alli create general page template text fileshown in example - to describe how all the forward-link files should lookwith parts to be filled in later example - pp \system\filetools\template html site redirection page$filethis page has moved this page now lives at this addressss it happens in factmost people who spend any substantial amount of time in cyberspace could probably tell horror story or two mine goes like thisa number of years agoi had an account with an isp that went completely offline for few weeks in response to security breach by an ex-employee worsenot only was personal email disabledbut queued up messages were permanently lost if your livelihood depends on email and the web as much as mine doesyou'll appreciate the havoc such an outage can wreak generating redirection web pages