Cheers mate! Scottish heritage! Just for the record though, it was a free host but I'd had to pay a fair amount for the extras that make the forum work. In an ideal world, I'd hoped to prove that the forum could be run on a shoestring budget. To be fair to the old host though, it's got us this far!
For the geeks!: The first major downtime came when the database randomly lost half of it's data. (Half our posts!) I back up at least twice a day now but, quite often with this host, the backups are corrupt. I tried to upload some recent database backups but it just wouldn't have it, citing syntax errors as the problem. How can there be a syntax error when this version worked before? Anyway, the answer was that there was a NULL value where there should have been a '0'. So I edited all the instances of that and it worked!
So.... all is good.......
Until the host went down with hard disk overload that took three days for them to fix. This was the last straw! The forum is now with a paid host and I will keep moving it until we find the reliability that we
need demand!
Martin.
