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I'm already a member, was just at home and on a different computer and can never remember my username and password. But i'm back at work now and its all logged in for me.
Thanks for the help, i've asked the client to check their invoices, but will probably try looking up the name servers as well and try those traceroute things see if that gives me any hints. Seems daft trying to find out where a site is hosted when i've been working on it for the past couple of years! Oh well.
Thanks for all your help.
Tom
Learning without thought is labor lost;
thought without learning is perilous. - Confucius