Firstly, I am aware that the Annexe and Folkinfo are down and I apologise for that.

I do not know why the sites are down but our attempts at phoning 38h are not producing any replies. Pip and I have reached the point whereby we have decided we can no longer cope with the uncertanties that this ISP provides.

We have discussed matters at length, even to the point of dicussing whether we want to keep the sites going and Pip is in communication with a couple of people over one issue. Beyond that, all I can say is that we have agreed both sites will continue to operate.

There will be changes however. I intend looking for another host and may even attempt hosting from home, at least as a backup. I also intend a complete re-write of the forums into php as at the moment, my requirements of both asp and php does limit my options when looking at various hosting alternatives. I'm also planning on trying to "rationalise" the code used between the 2 sites - believe it or not, in many ways as things stand, I am maintaining 2 sets of code, not just one!

In the longer term folkinfo and the Annexe will be stronger placed in the event of future problems but these moves are far from trivial. I would estimate it will take me a month to achieve all this.

In the meanwhile, folkinfo and the Annexe may or may not come back - it's hard to say when people refuse to communicate... but if it does, I will continue to run in the shorter term on there. I've also got the problems of trying to get the latest Annexe database (I've had an ongoing problem with ftp - and emails not replied to since thier last big downtime) and questionmarks over transferring domain name registration (again, not as easy as one would like when one party does not communicate - why is it that people think communication is so unimportant?) to face.

We will get there and I apologise for being so vague as well as for this down time.

Jon