Recently, you may have noticed that HiFiForum.co.uk has been either displaying a blank web page hosted on a strange server, or has been offline alltogether.

This, i'm glad to say, is nothing to do with HiFiForum.co.uk, however, it is affecting HiFiForum.co.uk. I shall explain.

When the site was showing a blank page, someone had gained access into the web server on the shared host running HiFiForum.co.uk and had reconfigured it to point at their own site. HiFiForum.co.uk was not affected, but the web server serving it was.

As soon as that got fixed by my web host, they were unfortunate enough to suffer a massive Denial of Service (DoS) attack which then took HiFiForum.co.uk (and all other sites) offline completely.

The outcome of all this is that HiFiForum.co.uk (and all other web sites hosted on the same machine) are going to be moved to a much faster, much more reliable data center sooner than planned. The migration was due to happen over a period of time, but due to recent events, it is going to happen within a very short timescale.

The outcome of this is that HiFiForum.co.uk could experience another outage, but if it does, hopefully it won't be for too long this time.

I apologise for any inconvenience, and i hope you still enjoy your time on this site

Thanks,
FishSponge (Site Admin)

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ok, HiFiForum.co.uk has now been moved to the new data center and hopefully will suffer no more outages from this point on!

However, please be prepared for one or two more outages, as my web host may have a few teething problems, or may need to restart various services on the new servers. They have assured me, however, that any planned outages from this point on will be kept to an absolute minimum.

Once again, please accept my apologies for the lack of this site over the last week, but also please believe me when i say it has been rather annoying for me too.

Anyway, thank you for your patience!! I hope to see the posting begin again soon