No, it wasn't at A&L's house. It was hosted at friend's business.
A major catastrophe no. We were on a 10/2 mbit ADSL link for several weeks and a shared 25 mbit dynamic IP thing for a few days. Neither of these were really suitable for running the server and people were complaining; asking questions like 'when will the server work properly', etc. After several weeks with no firm-ish date for a resolution, I decided to do something about it. Thus the first rented server and then the second.
Why do you keep beating this horse?
Proud member of "the most paranoid group of people in the community"