Recent website & forum downtime
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:50 am
You may have noticed some recent issues with the website and, particularly, the forum. We apologise.
We moved website hosts, in an attempt to improve speed and overall reliability. Unfortunately, we underestimated the sheer amount of bandwidth that this site consumes (and, particularly, the downloads) and within 5 days we'd used our entire months bandwidth allocation at the new hosts.
Unfortunately, they were less than helpful and. When we temporarily removed the downloads to prevent us from hitting the limit, this caused lots of "file not found" errors to be logged and was interpreted by our hosts as a Denial of Service attack. They then pulled the site entirely.
Tail between legs, we have returned to our original host. All is not lost, however, as we successfully converted the forum from phpBB2 to phpBB3, which we weren't able to do before.
So, welcome back and we hope you enjoy the new forum.
Over the coming weeks we will be making improvements to the site. Hopefully with less downtime as a result!
We moved website hosts, in an attempt to improve speed and overall reliability. Unfortunately, we underestimated the sheer amount of bandwidth that this site consumes (and, particularly, the downloads) and within 5 days we'd used our entire months bandwidth allocation at the new hosts.
Unfortunately, they were less than helpful and. When we temporarily removed the downloads to prevent us from hitting the limit, this caused lots of "file not found" errors to be logged and was interpreted by our hosts as a Denial of Service attack. They then pulled the site entirely.
Tail between legs, we have returned to our original host. All is not lost, however, as we successfully converted the forum from phpBB2 to phpBB3, which we weren't able to do before.
So, welcome back and we hope you enjoy the new forum.
Over the coming weeks we will be making improvements to the site. Hopefully with less downtime as a result!