As some of you may have noticed we have been having a few issues with forum of late with the servers just not coping for one reason or another. As with all things, the simplest solution is "MORE POWAAAAA!"

To that end I'm gearing up to move the forums to a shiny new server with more resources, more bandwidth, more speed (and less issues). All things going well that will mean we can turn attachments back on and have images hosted locally and maybe a few other nice toys for our members to play with too.

The change over could be as early as this weekend (assuming the server passes all preliminary testing) but I will confirm before it's cut over both here and on our Facebook page.

So, what does it mean for you?

Phase 1. The forum will be shut down to new users.
Phase 2. The forum will be temporarily shut down for a current snapshot/backup.
Phase 2.9. **TBA** The forum will come back online as read only. (if possible).
Phase 3. The actual cut over. Cross fingers, knock on wood and pray the various car gods that it all goes to plan.
Phase 4. Checking and real world testing.
Phase 5. Beers.

Wish me luck and I hope to see you all on the other side.

Aaron.