Website Downtime And Loss Of Some Data

[Steve]

Hi Guys

Edited: 28th November 2013 - 10.00am

Our first report on the data loss was due to security issues, but I have found out that it was actually web host issue.

Due to some technical issues with our host and not being able to restore a recent back up we have suffered a little bit of data loss. This was mainly due to being set up on a new cloud infrastructure and the back ups were not tested fully.

Some of you may have experienced that we have stepped back a few days and there will be loss in topics, Posts and PM's.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused members, including members that registered over the last week that may need to re-register.

I have taken steps to ensure that the nightly data back ups are backing up correctly in future and I have taken extra steps to ensure that this will not happen again.

We have been lucky over the last 12 years that we have managed to keep the data intact, so as you can understand I am sad that a little bit of data has been lost.

Sorry guys!