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I suspect they were not legally obligated to take it down (without a court order or a National Security Letter, anyway). But they also, of course, had no obligation to keep it up. I'd probably take it down if I worked there.

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It seems quite obvious he wasn't going to be paying his hosting bill anymore.

And if had my servers hosted there, I might consider moving them.

Why? This isn't the hosting company's fault.

Don't you think the FBI is going to be looking through his website? I wouldn't be surprised if they poked around in other servers while they were at it.

I think, for the most part, free speech is a right people expect to keep after they're dead. If you say something, the government isn't allowed to censor it, even when you're no longer around to stop them. I would want a host that would support that ideal.

Ah, I thought that someone was suggesting changing hosting companies because the host was also used by Stack, not because the host took his page down.

I would also want a host to keep sites online for as long as they'd been paid for.

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