Another example of how not to run a business. My hosting provider has a problem. They've automated their systems to the point where bad actors are using them to do bad things, there's not enough human interaction to spot the bad actors. This part isn't a surprise, it's a universal problem of technology and the demands of making money in scale. My provider has chosen to try to mitigate this problem with more automated systems, and chose an 'anti-spam' system called Vade to monitor traffic over their network and shut down ports that are identified as sources of spam. Pretty clever sounding, and maybe it works for corporations, but it's failing in my experience of being a hosting client. Specifically, my servers keep getting blocked, all false positives, and the only recourse is an onerous process for me to "prove" each time that I'm not sending spam. Now, I get that systems can have errors, and I did my best to work with my provider to help them ...