Problems getting on site

[KathyG]

I've had problems today getting onto the site. I keep getting messages saying the site has reached its limits and suspended to protect. Anyone else getting this or is it my machines?

[Ian Macmillan]

Kathy: You've not been alone, though it has usually been quite short lived. It's all to do with the numbers of users on the site, and it's being looked into by those who know about these things.

[John Mallinson]

Yes, apologies to all for these annoying interruptions. We are just too popular and the server was getting overloaded! The site has now been moved to another server which should be better able to cope with the demands on it so we shouldn't have these problems again.

[Anjuli_Bai]

Me too! A window came up saying site has been moved to new server......for hours I couldn't get on. I assumed it was my personal gremlin.

[Lisa O`Brien]

Same here, but it`s fine now.

[Bruce]

All should be fine this morning. If not try the usual thing of clearing cache. It could just take a few more hours for some. Sorry, that there was no warning - we didn't know that the site would change physical server/ip this time until the last moment (there have been several silent upgrades already) with these attendant site move pains. As has been noted the forum was hitting some major constraints and we had to act quickly.

 

For those wondering, I temporarily remain in the loop because I still officially pay the bills, catch the complaining server folks emails and giddy them up etc. This will change when the committee has it bank account and donation drive in place and can pay them direct and hold the relationship. At the moment some on the committee are bearing all the costs of the forum - so there is a spur to get all this stuff in place soonest.

[KathyG]

Thanks for getting it sorted so quickly as usual.