We know you have an opinion on how things should be run around here. These are suggestions for the forums, and the website.This forum is not a place to ask for suggestions to your own coding (or otherwise) problems.
I don't see a reason to move the site. It's not like the DDoS wouldn't follow... Plus, we don't pay for hosting. That's why the site is as large as it is and there are no ads and junk.
I am in Northern California, behind a proxy in which I can access Devnetwork. But when I tried pinging (from the Windows command prompt) it returned the same 100% loss results as those previously posted.
This has happened to me for about a week some time back, turned out the host had blocked my IP address because I had been flagged for some odd reason.
Try firing an email the host an email, and ask them if there is anything they can do?