In Part 1 the Internet economy crushes my local trusted EMAIL provider, “FamilyProvider” and I do not learn about it until four hours before they depart the Internet forever. Four hours to come up with a new EMAIL address and update all my critical web accounts with that address.
At the time I was in a hotel room traveling for work and did not relish the thought of using hotel wifi for work ahead given how insecure they can be. Fortunately I remembered I could USB tether to my cell phone for Internet access. That has it’s own risks but a more acceptable risk than hotel wifi. With that settled, the first task was who will host my EMAIL services and what should my EMAIL address be.
No doubt I was going to miss some important web site but I figure with this prioritization any site I’d miss would only have the pain of inconvenience rather than real consequence. After two hours I already addressed my critical sites and was running out of sites I could recall that should be changed.
Once I got home I sent out a mass email to all my contacts using my new EMAIL account informing them of my new email address and the why behind it. Since it was coincidentally April 1 that I sent the EMAIL, I even included a way to verify it was truly me by referring to other methods in contacting me such as reply to the EMAIL with a question of personal knowledge only I could answer and is not published on the Internet.
All was well in the land with EMAIL responses to my mass EMAIL starting to trickle in until the next day I started getting password fail when connecting to my new EMAIL account with CoinOpHosting. Hoping the issue was some “fat finger” error on my part, I next tried accessing the CoinOpHosting management console account and I got a password fail with that as well.
What now ? Tune in next time where we learn why I called them CoinOp Hosting.