Fucking Yay. This is why I don't recommend people buy permanent LJ accounts. What are the odds you won't "guess wrong" on a LiveJournal content ruling some time in the next 7 years (the amount of time it takes for a permanent LJ account to "pay for itself")?

I read about LJ accounts getting suspended, deleted, or terminated every few months: sometimes en masse, sometimes just an individual. Unfortunately, I hear this about all the other hosting services, too. If I felt like any of the other services was any safer, I'd use that instead, but short of learning how to do it myself, I don't see a way to avoid that kind of control. LJ cancels accounts for nipples and slash-art. Angelfire cancelled my account for reasons unspecified, but probably my transition diary. If you use a "service", you run the risk of the service shutting you down.

Back up your content.

credit to sqrfruit and kobold's readers for pointing at these articles

Angelfire finally cancelled nh/dantaylor. It was really a matter of time, and my page was surprisingly long-lived (I'd had it since 1998). Angelfire is notorious for fairly arbitrary cancelling of accounts. Still, I wish I'd backed everything up. I keep remembering things that are not backed up, most notably, the archives of the "Further Adventures of Dan" going back to 1998. I just spent the last hour rescuing FAOD archives from Google Cache. I'm not done; there were a lot of them

When I log in it says:

Your account has been disabled for violation of Angelfire's Terms of Service. [broken link]
For information on the reasons why sites are removed, please go to our Network Abuse FAQ pages. [broken link]
If you believe your site has been removed in error, please follow the instructions under here to appeal this decision.[broken link]

Frustrating. My suspicion is that someone complained about the transition diary, which had NSFW pictures in it. I don't expect to be able to get it back. I am slightly annoyed, but mostly annoyed with myself, because I knew this would probably happen someday, and didn't keep good enough records.

[edit, midnight: "Someone" just left a comment in the guestbook for this site. I love that no one can actually access the site, but spambots can still get to the damn guestbook.]