[Dave Hybrid]

Our host performed a routine update last night that was meant to run a few hours to 06:00, something went wrong and we have been down until 19:00 this evening, things are now back to normal and should stay that way. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

[philthomas]

That's what Virgin Media often manages when they carry out routine work on their email servers

Good to see it all up & running again

[Dave Hybrid]

Ha! Yeah, routine maintenance is a smart way of saying we want to mess with a load of stuff and we'll probably cock it up.

18 Hours down, I'm not happy with our host to say the least.

[serverguy]

Been trying to get on for ages. I lost a very long post last night when we first went down... I thought it was my internet connection.

Oh well, we're back now and hopefully staying that way.

[Dave Hybrid]

Originally Posted by serverguy Been trying to get on for ages. I lost a very long post last night when we first went down... I thought it was my internet connection. Oh well, we're back now and hopefully staying that way.

Sorry, it was totally out of my hands, dam host!

[evilfantasy]

I was a bit concerned. The page wouldn't time out or anything, it would just never load.

They should come up with a default "Doing maintenance" page that users go to in these cases.

[serverguy]

Originally Posted by evilfantasy They should come up with a default "Doing maintenance" page that users go to in these cases.

Totally agree. I was sure it was my DNS.

Don't worry Dave, it was out of your control. I had saved a copy half way through luckily.