Well since it was down, i thought what the hell and totally rebuilt the server. I must admit my first thoughts were to get it back asap. it's not been rebuilt from the ground up since 2007.
Thanks to a donation and offers from people, (you know who you are)
hopefully it's a lot quicker now, seems to be to me anyway, it had lots of hang overs from experiments.
Any problems please let me know.
Have used the same version of the forum for years although they have released minor upgrades, all of which mess up my mods. but a long time in coming a new release is on the way. going to see what that is like and then maybe change over to that. it will be different and the loss of some mods, which lets face it most of you don't use.
thanks for you Patience