Our site was offline this morning because someone at our web host, Spry.com, messed up permissions on the server. It only takes a few seconds to run a chmod on a Unix box to make things right, but it took the folks at Spry.com waaaaaaaaay to long to take care of it. The site was throwing 500 errors this morning, and then the Spry folks stepped in to fix it. Thanks to their intervention, the site started throwing 403 errors instead. Gee, thanks fellas. And they won’t give me any answers regarding how the permissions got messed up in the first place.

Anybody know of a decent PHP host with SSH access? I can’t take any more of this.