The New Discussion Group has been a great success, except that the hardware hosting the database side of it has been spotty of late and this afternoon seems to have crashed totally. They’re rebuilding the drive, apparently have backups and expect we’ll be operational this evening sometime.
I’m sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. This new hosting service is so on the ball with customer service that I’m giving the benefit of the doubt for what has been a fairly nasty run of failures on this one server. If the pratfalls go on for too long we’ll have to change things again. Yuck.
The problem appears to have been a hard drive controller, which crashed the Raid and the backup hard drive. Data was recoverable from the original disks, once a new controller was installed. The backup drive was fried.
Discussion board is again up and functioning.