the everything2 server used to be colocated with the slashdot servers. however, some time after osdn acquired slashdot, and moved the slashdot servers, this hosting was terminated on short notice. this resulted in everything2 being offline from roughly november 6 to december 9, 2003. everything2 was then hosted by the university of michigan for a time. as the everything2 site put it on october 2, 2006: