Hi All, 

We are beginning the process of moving the hosting for the forum. 

Once migrated we will be able to access the forum using a secure certificate (SSL port 443) via https rather than http (port 80) meaning that all communication between your browser and the web server will be encrypted so nice and safe. 

The Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the hosting of the forum uptime will be 99.9%

and 

for those who are interested the hosting will be Carbon Neutral and very green more information on this in the next message. 

The process will be: 

1. The forum will be locked for a few of days. 

2. The forum will be migrated to the new host and unlocked. 

3. The domain name will point to the new host. 

4. The forum will be unlocked on the new host, and you should be able to access the forum.  

5. The SSL certificate will be issues. 

6. You should then be able to use HTTPS to access the forum. 

7. The domain name will be transferred to the new host. 

I will be putting the order in later today and the process will kick off soon after, I will update this thread with the dates. 

Any questions let me know. 

Ian

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An update for you all. 

We will be locking the forum in a little while for a couple of days while we move to the new servers. 

We will be back up and running soon with a shiny new server and SSL certificate so we will have end to end encryption. 

Sorry for the inconvenience the locked forum will cause, but this should set us up for the future.  

The server has been migrated, the SSL cert issued and with a bit of luck you should all be seeing the forum. 

Thanks for being patient and service should be working as normal. 

it seems to work all well here.

Thanks for all the work!

Thanks Ian

Any issues let me know.