Yours truly - although I hate to admit it.

Sorry that the site has been down for the past day and a half or so.

As part of our new cost saving initiative, yours truly decided to find a new web hosting service for this site. Things have become cheaper as technology grows more powerful so I reckoned we should switch to a new provider.

All good so far.

There are loads of them out there. So I cancelled ours with 28 days notice.

Still all good.

Until Monday lunchtime, when Fiona mentioned that the site was down. The penny dropped like a bolt from heaven. Monday was day 28 after I cancelled, even though we were paid up until the end of the month. That shower simply deleted the site, data and everything, around midday. No recourse.

Cue desperate scrabbling around for a virtual server. Found this lot at a decent price, so hope it works as expected. Should be faster (more memory, faster network connection from server to t'interweb, and so on.)

Finally - anything you posted since Sat morning is lost.

Gone. Exterminated.

That was the time of our last saved database backup.

And the place will look a bit funny until I can spend more time on it at the weekend.

Sod it. Ships happen. Nobody died.

C'est la vie.