Forum issue late 18 July into early hours of 19th July 2018

[Casey]

Apologies to anyone who had an issue with accessing forum pages last night. You may have experienced a "blank page header", similar to the screenshot below when trying to view any forum content. As you can see, page 68 contents should be displayed below the header bar, but it's blank 

The main forum home page and other functions were unaffected, but the forum SQL database was inaccessible and therefore unable to serve any forum content requests.

I immediately reported the issue to our forum hosting company, TSO Hosts, who quickly confirmed the server on which our forum database is located went into overload last night. Although things have resolved themselves today, to prevent a recurrence, TSO Hosts will be transferring our forum database onto a newer server platform today. This will involve just a few minutes of downtime, so apologies if you experience a glitch today, but I'm assured it won't be long