I have a small website hosted on an asmallorange shared hosting plan. This morning, my site returns 404 error pages. I tried visiting asmallorange.com home page and it redirects to web.com Did they get hacked? Did they get bought out? I can't find any news about them and they never communicated anything about a change of ownership.
I was a bit leary of logging in the customer area which still renders as it used to, but I did earlier today. It's no longer possible to submit a new support ticket as they screwed something up and the system says there are no departments to route the ticket. But I was able to reply to an old support ticket and they answered it this afternoon. It turns out they upgraded the php (and who knows what else) environment on the server (without any warning to us customers) and it apparently broke my site. This is a simple brochure site with very minimal php code so I expect to have it working again soon.
A Small Orange might be acquired by web.com as their website redirects there. Your 404 errors could be due to this transition. Check A Small Orange's knowledge base or contact support for updates. Monitor the situation and consider alternative web hosting if needed.