Khosan offered to host us. Until we found another solution which we took advantage of. Shortly after the move a router went down at the university over the Christmas holidays so no one could get there to reboot the router. We were down for almost 2 weeks
Darkstaff had DSL installed at his house, and hosted the mud there after Khosan's network came back up. Qwest evidently had his DSL on a development network that went up and down like a yo-yo. Had numerous outages, including one 3 day outage that no one at qwest noticed. (This led to the numerous 'qwest' emotes inside the mud.)
Darkstaff then moved the mud to another location in Qwest hanging off one of the major backbones. This site hosted us for quite awhile.
During this time of complete chaos, we took a backup of the mud and just let the players run wild, free exp, free gold etc.