The fresh flowers of spring have now endured their summer sauna and faded into the mulch that will spawn when the next cycle begins anew. In the lifetime of one flower, the saga of hosting has continued. But today the quest has hit hard rock…the real answer to what caused such drastic policy changes has been revealed. The cause was neither storage space nor band width. It had nothing to do with the explosion of neither web 2.0 collaborative sites nor the high-rate database connections some sites need. No, rather today the bottom line came out. The raise in price last year was a preemptive strategy for expansion. This year the new backup software was ultimately the clincher. For when too many files are present, a site backup takes longer than either man or machine want to wait. As the story goes, keep counts down and the back-end internals are less likely to loose backup data. Rather than accommodate individual requests, the giant has grown to the size where customers are just statistics on paper and could not think of doing anything outside corporate principles and policy..