First of all apologies to all members for the downtime over the last 48 hours.

britsinbrisbane shares the same server as pomsinoz, perthpoms and pomsinadelaide.

Basically, what happened, was that as a result of the announcements made by Senator Chris Evans a couple of days ago, the traffic to the server went through the roof as members and guests (many of whom were probably amongst the 20,000 who've had their applications cancelled) wanted to discuss the changes. As a result, the server became continually overloaded and despite our best attempts, it proved impossible to keep the forum online. When this became apparent, I hired (on a private consultation basis) a member of the vbulletin support team to investigate the problems. George worked tirelessly last night to rebuild/reconfigure/tune large parts of the server and has got it to the point where we can re-enable the forum.

The upshot is though, that as the 4 forums have continue to grow, the current server is beginning to struggle, so in the next couple of months we will look at migrating to a more powerful server, so we hopefully won't experience the same sort of downtime again.

Rob
Admin