Our startup website is down. Hosting provider suspended our account

Setting up your own server: - Pay for the Mac Mini + Time Capsule - Set up Amazon account with credit card - Sign up for AWS/S3 service, with auto-billing - Configured with Apache 2, MySQL 5, PHP 5 - Place behind your firewall on DSL connection, enabling TCP on port 80 - Set your domain's DNS records to point to Mini

Capabilities - Box handles 500-1,000 visitors per hour (no monthly cost) - Backup Drive automatically backs up all content hourly, saving older versions for disaster recovery - S3 stores all heavy content for distribution; handles HTTP serving of content to unlimited clients simultaneously at up to 500 KBytes/second (delivery of 100GB content costs less than $20/mo)

never become threatening, but mention that you're going to be contacting a lawyer about this matter.

did you not have code and/or database backups? if you did, go get a new host. if you didn't, you should have made some. i feel your pain, but its a mistake to not back up stuff.

People make mistakes. web hosting providers are run by people. Data loss happens.

I go even further and say that you need to make sure that no single person can delete every copy of your essential data (unless that single person owns most of the company) - if nothing else, you should keep backups under the founder's bed.

Who are these people?

Back on topic, why don't you just move all your stuff to another account? Just load your backups and go nuts. You do have local backups, correct?

Given your target audience, I'm not sure why you're with an American provider. You should probably stick with someone more local.