If I may make a suggestion:
If you know this owner, you should tell them to hook a PC up and have a simple text file site saying that the server is down and how long it it going to take for it to come up.
It would make things simpler.
Anyways: I just sent you a PM on the mbhosting site. It was about the google ads.
I found a regular HTML display of them, and I wanted you to check it our and see what you thought.