We are back!

[JimF]

Sorry for the interruption.

As most of you know the forum has been down for upwards of a week. It's sudden crash was a mystery as no administrative work was occurring on either the forum software or the website. I worried that the web host moved us unannounced to a different server that was somehow incompatible with the forum software. Or perhaps the installation of a security patch had the unintended consequence of killing the forum.

As it turned out the problem was one of quota but not of space. The website only uses just 10% of its storage space allocation which is why I sort of figured that could not be the forum's problem.

For some strange reason though, the Web Host Provider places a 40,000 file limit on the storage regardless of disk quota usage. So when the forum created the 40,001st file on the website it just seized up.

I moved a lot of stuff off of the website and now for a while we are back. I will contact the Web Host Provider about how to get us a much larger file allocation. With luck they will just do it for nothing considering our web storage is way underutilized. They may however want to upgrade the site's hosting plan.

I expect to call them tomorrow.

Thanks everyone.

Jim

[Ventodue]

Thanks Jim - good work, appreciated.

Craig

[graeme]

Thank you Jim
I was having withdrawal symptoms without the forum.

Regards
Graeme

[Samurai]

Hey, that's great news!

Several of us over here in the UK were starting to panic, as this is the most comprehensive and well supported Ducati Singles sites that we know of!

[Harvey]

Jim, I thought it was gone, with all the information, collected over the years, it was bad enough loosing Bob. I was heart broken.
First day of 2018 and it's back, you've made my day.