Well that's annoying as hell

It seems that the demons of stupidity have been plaguing my web provider. People have been telling me that my links are broken for the past 2 days and at first, I didn't believe them but I've now been forced to notice that something is wrotten in the kindom of Denmark.

Logging on to my webserver, I was shocked to discover that all my directories are now dated feb 16/feb17, even though some of those should be years old. Files I uploaded on the 22nd are nowhere to be found. Even more worrysome, I did some file maintenance this morning and deleted some old stuff. Lo and behold, it's now back. What's even more brain damaged is that I was trying to install java/tomcat and had downloaded all the files to do that. They're gone. Poof! Kaput!

I've opened a trouble ticket with the ISP and I have everything in cache/backup, but still. That's just fucked up.

Edit: I know what the problem is. In fact, the exact same thing happend to me once before. My web provider keeps getting bought by a bigger fish and they keep migrating their servers to new server farms. As such, they take a snapshot and replicate it to a new server, then point the DNS entries to the new server. Should be a quick and painless transition. Except that I connect to flubu.com on a daily basis and therefore have its IP cached locally. So when the master records change, I don't see it and merrily keep working on a server that will soon die. Joy. I'm moving the last files over now so no harm done. I would just have appreciated a bit or warning…