Problems with the Forum

[Justin]

Sincere apologies for the last couple of days Despite a reassurance the host companies servers were once again attacked. I'm taking the neccesary precautions to ensure this doesn't happen again. This may mean a shorter period of scheduled maintenance but if this is the case I'll give as much notice as possible.

Appreciate your patience.

Justin

[AJLA]

I'm having terrible probs today Justin, I can go and make a cuppa while loading and I have to keep closing the site down.
Missimg my am fix, I don't think it's me (or the pc) must be quite frustrating for you but don't worry we'll be patient as we are all gratefull to you for the forum.

[Andrew]

Yeah, no worries Justin. It is very up and down right now though.

[Justin]

Not sure why there have been problems today, I'll look into this now.

[Justin]

OK, it looks like we're back online at long last. I don't think they'll be any data after the 12th so there will be a few posts missing. I apologise for this but there had to be a small sacrifice to get us back online quickly

I appreciate everyones patience with this and a big thank you to everyone that has emailed me the last few days with support etc.

We should be stable now but I'm taking no chances and will be changing hosts again shortly. This will involve a much larger investment so I'm going to be looking for regular donations or ideally I'll have to look at memberships/sponsorship, all be it very low. I'd hoped to avoid this but there appears to be no other option as costs start to increase and we need the stable environment we can rely on to move forward.

No rush decisions wil be made and I'll detail proposals on here before pursuing.

This has been a nightmare week and has caused me an awful lot of aggro I could well have done without but I will get us back on track and continue to move forward.

Justin

[Justin]

There may be a few gallery images missing, I should be able to get these back fingers crossed.

[Paul]

would you be able to get my last post back in member to member section Justin??

[Justin]

Hi Paul, it's highly unlikely. I just had a quick go but it didn't work. I can do a full restore but I'm risking losing more data.

I will have another look but it's doubtful. TBH I think it would be quicker for you to re-post, not sure what responses you'd had.

Justin

[JSR]

What's the problem that's causing these outages?

Is it just the host (whoever they are)?

[Justin]

It was an attack on the hosts servers and they had no choice but to take everything offline