Apologies for the downtime - part 2

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My sincere apologies again for the downtime again. The whole trouble arose because interfaith.org was growing too big for its original hosting account, so I upgraded the account.

Unfortunately, for some reason the newly upgraded account didn't appear to be configured properly for dealing with some databases, which kept causing the forum database here to keep crashing.

And for some stupid reason, the webhost seemed unable or unwilling to realize that.

Anyway, after it managed to stay up for a few days all seemed fine - then the forums crashed again.

My support ticket about this was left unanswered for 2 days, so I then put in motion a server transfer to a new webhost and new webhosting account - an old reliable provider I used in the past.

Anyway, we're now here - interfaith.org appears to have moved to the new server, so hopefully everything will now be fine.

However, any issues/problems/bugs please do let me know below!
 
The original webhost messaged me the following day - apparently there'd been a hardware failure on that server, which had caused the database issues. However, while they should have acted sooner, we've moved on now. I'm only sorry that I didn't make the server move earlier, but I had expected the original webhost to manage things quicker, and I wanted to take care that wherever we went should be stable and sustainable in the long-term.
 
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