Site access problems at pair.com?

Anyone having these problems?

[mayor]

Lately I've been having problems with sites hosted at pair.com not being accessable. Usually the problem only lasts for a few minutes but I'm not used to having these problems at pair.com.

As of this moment, a key site has been giving "404's" by both URL and IP address for around half an hour, and it's still not back. Other sites hosted there are accessable.

Anyone else experiencing problems at pair.com?

[ScottM]

I'm having a couple of problems retrieving mail-just started last week. No big issue, but a little annoying..

Another possibility:

MSN's new bot totally flooded my forum to the point of not being accessable for a few hours this morning. I had to actually empty the sessions table-it took up all 550 rows...

Is it possible that MSN's bot found pair and is crawling all those sites?

[mayor]

OK, pair.com did respond quick to my urgent online ticket.

They said my site's IP address had been previously assigned to another expired site and that due to some software glitch which the programmers hope to correct, the IP address was suddenly pointed back at the expired site causing a conflict. For now, the problem has been resolved with my site.

I asked if there was some way we could be assigned only virgin ip's and they said it was not possible.

I expressed concern that a search engine might ban the IP address if the prior user had abused it. Their reply was that good search engines will associate a site foremost by it's content, rather than the domain or IP address. Wow, is that a relief. I thought search engines were banning abuser at least by URL, if not the IP address. Sorry, but I don't buy it all.

Anyone know of a host that does not recycle IP addresses, or should I not be concerned?