Apologies to all for the Forum being unavailable for the last 12 Hours.  It appeared that our host 'Aquest' in the US had a total 'outage' as not only BeoWorld was affected, but all sites hosted by them.  After trying to get in touch, with no answer, we were all set to transfer BeoWorld to the back-up server (albeit with a slight loss of data from the last 2 weeks) - but then it all came back again.

Edit - This was not in fact due to the need to press three magic buttons (see below), but a major Denial of Service attack on their servers. BeoWorld was unaffected, but the attack was so intense Aquest decided to pull the plug on everything until they could regroup.

Quite why people who carry out DNS attacks put the time and effort into this is beyond me.  There are much more rewarding things for young people to pursue in this world like girls, cars, beer (or insert hobby here) - as well as interaction with other human beings, instead of being holed up in a small room stacked with empty pizza boxes and coffee cups feeling smug you've stopped someone asking a question on a forum.  It's beyond me, really..

Even when they do succeed, and websites go down for a few hours - what have they achieved?  Last night I read a good book which Peter sent me for an extra couple of hours and enjoyed a couple of glasses of nice Rioja instead of 'housekeeping' on the site. They did me a favour!