Sandown & Shanklin Inshore Lifeboat website goes off radar

and is rescued by Netguides

16th of February 2008

Sandown & Shanklin Inshore Lifeboat Website disappeared off the radar in mid January and confused everyone involved in the website.

After several hours of investigating from myself, I found that the company that hosted our website had also disappeared and was not showing at their normal website address.

Things started to become clear that something was deeply wrong, looking into this even more I found that the company had in fact sold up to an American company and with this the servers had been switched off - leaving our website off-line and many more websites in the same way.

After talks with the Lifeboat committee about the problem, it was agreed to cut our loses and find a new hosting company.

We had purchased our domain name through Netguides, who are based on the Isle of Wight in East Cowes, after a very nice chat with  Roger Bee (on of the Directors of Netguides), Netguides offered Sandown & Shanklin Inshore Lifeboat free hosting for our website and full support of their teams.

With Netguides help, Sandown & Shanklin Inshore Lifeboat website will go from strength to strength and carry on giving the information across to our supporters that surf the web.

Sandown & Shanklin Inshore Lifeboat crew would like to Thank Netguides for their support to Sandown & Shanklin Inshore Lifeboat.

Apologies to our on-line supporters and anyone who was trying to get onto our website whilst we resolved the matter.

Regards:

Richard Chantler - Crew Member / IT Officer / Station Solutionist Technician.