A technical issue was slowing down the forum, sorry (updated)

[Administrator]

The computer that this forum runs on was recently upgraded a newer, faster computer by the hosting company. However this has lead to the forum being a bit slow for some people and since reporting it the techies have said:

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:04:00

Some customers may be experiencing problems with sites that were recently migrated, resulting in slow response times. Our engineers are currently looking into the problem and normal service should resume soon.

and it's still on going:

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:32:38 +0000

We're currently experiencing an issue with network performance. This is causing slow performance for some web servers. We're currently investigating the problem and hope to get it resolved as soon as possible.

Update 9:25 - We are currently experiancing loss of service on a number of our transit links. We have been told by our provider that this is a national network issue and engineers are currently working on the problem.

In the meantime customers are likely to experience slow or intermittent internet access.

an update...

Update - 11:10 Our provider has a engineering team onsite investigating the nature of the core fibre network break in London.

Our provider will attempt to repair the circuit however depending on the level of damage its estimated a service will not be restored for at least 2 hours. If the damage is found to be more severe, our provider plans to rerouted our services via alternate paths.

Sorry about this

regards