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Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 02, 2026 7:49 am

Ironically, I couldn't load this site last night and got a cloudfare warning...

There was a hardware issue I am afraid.

The physical host that your server resides on has experienced a hardware failure. To help resolve this issue as quickly as possible, the drives from this host will be transplanted to one of our standby hosts.

We were down for around six hours and back working around midnight.

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Carl Hibbard wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 27, 2026 12:24 pm

Andrew Zigmond wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 27, 2026 12:17 pm

Hopefully the results will be known soon. Carl may wish to consider if this thread has now served its purpose.

Yes.

This thread has served its purpose and hopefully an agreement can be reached I see no point in dragging it out further.

Carl Hibbard wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 03, 2026 8:53 am

Hard for me to see past Harry Grieve if I had to bet real money.

He pushed his luck today it was lost and drawn and won.

Hard for me to see past Harry Grieve if I had to bet real money.

Or.

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Paul Cooksey wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 28, 2026 8:15 am

If Andrew's concern is not to further inflame the dispute between John and Barbara I can understand.

But I was hoping to discuss the election result and whether the voting is published here or in another thread.

Hopefully that is the plan yes.

Andrew Zigmond wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 27, 2026 12:17 pm

Hopefully the results will be known soon. Carl may wish to consider if this thread has now served its purpose.

Yes.

I have had to take more drastic action so seems calling it out was not the best plan.

This is not AI or search or crawlers - this is simply excess volume to access a forum or a topic over and over.

But 300 hundred thousand requests from Brazil for example in a single day is clearly not normal.

As we approach our 20 year milestone this is becoming rather hard work.