We have suffered two further outages this afternoon. The first was at about 2:30 this afternoon and technical support at the hosting company have confirmed that it was their problem. I suspect that this may be the case for the other problems we have encountered.
I will talk to their sales people in the morning. We have purchased a hosting plan that advertises 99.9% up time. I am a little bit
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You may be interested to see the stats from the first 3 days (well Lowena said she liked stats!)
Between Wednesday morning and Friday night we served 70,681 pages and had 135,058 hits from 609 visitors. Forum software is quite intensive because every page has to be individually built by the server - it is all working in real time (even when you hit the post button the server checks nobody else has said enything while you were typing).
Whilst this exceeded our expectations it is not beyond what the systems will cope with. Having said that we will keep the hosting under review.