Ok, everything is now back up and fully operational. I wish I could tell you what struck down the old server, but the technical guys are still looking at it as their 'highest priority' (lord, I DARE NOT IMAGINE how long it takes for things on a low priority). As a consequence I moved forward my planned move to a newer server at a different ISP... and here we are!
Due to the sudden and unpreventable nature of our move, we lost a little bit of data, namely:
- 3 days of gallery entries
- 2 hours worth of posts
- 4 New resources in the downloads section
- 1 tutorial (Turbulent Water).
- Our old .HTACCESS file (hence the wierdness in the webindex)
Thankfully the resources and tutorial will be immediately recoverable once the original server comes back and I clone the data across. The posts and gallery entries are lost forever, I'm afraid, as keeping them would involve disabling the forums for several more days... and I know that would drive you all nuts!!!
The good news is that our new server is MUCH faster, has double the RAM, and an UNLIMITED 100mbit connection! I've increased everyone's Biocredit starting-point to 25 creds to show you how much I love ya all.
The only thing this new server is missing so far is a PHP accelerator... but I'm working on that, so the pages should load even faster soon enough. In the meantime, enjoy the speedier services... and let me know what you think!