[evamermaid]

After the spammers got hold of my simple php contact form, I put a captcha box on all the contact forms on my 4 websites. Everything worked fine for 2 or 3 weeks until this week when 3 of the forms (hosted with a different host than the other form / site) stopped working - error message came up saying there was a socket problem. So I've had to temporarily remove the forms and just use an email contact which isn't brill when it's a biz website... Any clues why this has suddenly started happening? Asking my host is useless as they NEVER reply to tickets. Wonder if I should move the 3 sites to the other host where things seem to be working OK. Could it be that the working Ok host isn't secure FTP whereas the not working OK host IS secure FTP? Why has it suddenly stopped working? Worse, one of the websites has completely disappeared!!! Please don't give me a mega techie answer as I'm only Ok with basic php (got someone on elance to do the captcha stuff).

[Ghozer]

FTP is so insecure now, I just disable all FTP access and use SSH / winSCP for file transfers now..

Ideas of why it stopped working, could only be down to your host, some configuration change or something.