So, that didn't work. Will try something else.

Ok, so basically the biggest table in the entire MF database has crashed. It's going to take some considerable time to repair itself now.

Rebuild in progress. Will take some time, server will be up and down during the task. Should be ok in a few hours.

Or not. Sigh.

Taken the server offline while the latest repair is attempted. People F5ing the page and trying it has been possibly hampering efforts.

Server still intentionally offline. Rebuild continuing. Anyone know any good jokes?

I'm going to tentatively say we're back live...

Spoke too soon. Bah! It was there for a few minutes.

And we're back. Thanks for your patience everyone. Until next time!

Yes, we seem to have been down for a little while. Looking into it. Nothing sinister, just a suspected server hang.

We rebooted the server this morning after a hung process hosed it but it appears to have reverted again. Looking into it.

Ok, so the server has hosed completely. Temp server being spun up and a restore will happen. Wont be a quick fix but later tonight hopefully

Details to follow, but basically the disk arrays failed the backup script stopped in Jan. Forum is up but a month out of date so hidden

The drives are back on Island and there's a data recovery being done tonight. Fingers crossed it can be restored. Worst case we lose Feb :(

We may have found the lost month of February. Check back in the morning.

All hail Unisol. Data restored. This account goes back into hibernation. Until the next time....

If you're having problems accessing MF (and maybe other sites?) and you're using Wimanx DNS servers, try changing them to Google DNS.

Just to say, the DNS issues with MF should be fixed in the next day or so. In the meantime, switching your DNS to Google does the trick.

And if that sounds like hard work, it's simple on Windows 7. howtogeek.com/164981/how-to-…

Forum will be offline for periods over next few hours for essential maintenance. Hopefully this will resolve all the speed issues for good.