I pay for a year at a time :) i am paying for my voip, cellphone, rent manually atm i don't really like the idea of automatic withdrawls with cellphone/voip, as sometimes those kinds of places can suddenly screw bill up. hmm i suppose paying 6 monthly doesn't seem that bad. arp's actually the only vps place i haven't randomly hit issues with. i have a vultr vps in sydney which keeps giving network problems but i'd had quite a few vps's over the years, and disk and network degredation is pretty common. brycec: excess flood? what'd you do? :) Not a clue. Just all of a sudden, I was booted. weird i think it usually means the receiving socket is overrun Either way, I blame Freenode yeah probably. it was quite stable for a while.