An apology for last nights and this mornings forum downtime.
About 10pm last night our server suffered a hardware failure. We migrated the forums to a new larger server which took some time and was completed by 2am.
After keeping an eye on things for a while our tech guys went to get some kip. Unfortunatly a while later the database on the new server crashed. This took a while to be noticed by me (as I was asleep ).
About 9.30 this morning I managed to get hold of our tech’s who have repaired the database tables - however due to this being a new server we may have to make tweaks to the configuration over the next few days to optimise it, and unexpected crashes may occur.
A word of thanks to techman who stayed up late last night to resolve the original issue, and was woken up at 5am (local time) on a Sunday by me to fix the database crash.