"Needless to say, I only freed up about 1GB of space. The problem is still waiting to get out of control and cause the server to crash -- or at least that's what the guy in operations says will happen.

"It's now been another two to three weeks and we're still waiting for access to our own dedicated servers so we can address the problems. I think this guy just takes his 'data security' title too seriously."

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