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Where did Aardvark go?
5 May 2026Regular readers may have noticed that this website effectively disappeared on Friday Morning and was gone for several days.
Unfortunately, the hosting company seems to have had a pretty major melt-down which took almost four days to rectify. During that time there was nothing to see at this address and, for a while, even email addressed to the domain will have been bouncing.
Whilst this was enormously frustrating, I have to admit that the up-time from the hosting company, which I've been using for many years, has been pretty good.
However...
Forums are Down
Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?
I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/
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