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Forum reliability issues in recent days
« on: October 23, 2018, 01:28:38 PM »
Sorry about the website going down for a couple of days. This was caused by a server upgrade by the hosting company and the IT expert has fixed this in conjunction with the hosting company. The forum should be good to run now for the foreseeable future.

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Re: Forum reliability issues in recent days
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2019, 09:50:53 AM »
The recent issue with the forum was caused by a routine security update which took longer than expected.

No issues are expected now that the update is finished. The update required all hosted fora on the hosting domain to be temporarily brought down; apologies for any inconvenience.

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Re: Forum reliability issues in recent days
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2020, 10:19:41 AM »
Sorry about the recent outage. An update was required and slight fettling of the database.

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Re: Forum reliability issues in recent days
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2020, 12:56:14 PM »
The forum went down again last night, related to the pressure on the internet servers. It was mainly due to the number of people attempting to get onto the server upon which our forum is hosted.

I am assured that the problem has been resolved, and the tech admin has also checked things this morning. Apologies to everyone for the recent difficulties.

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Re: Forum reliability issues in recent days
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2021, 06:30:20 PM »
The forum has been down for a few hours due to migration to another hosting company. As the new hosting company bought out the old one and brings no unique selling point to the forum, then we will leave the forum hosted here provided nothing goes wrong.

At the first sign of any issues, we will move the forum to an Icelandic-based server, as Iceland has the hardest, most uncompromising rules on freedom of speech. Unusually, they are better than the USA in this regard.

Apologies for any disruption.

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Re: Forum reliability issues in recent days
« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2022, 08:27:22 PM »
The forum has been down for a few hours earlier today.

No problems with the forum now; it was down for routine maintenance.

Sorry for any inconvenience.