Question Can anyone help?

They've been having a number of issues recently, and I think someone may have hacked them on top of just general server problems. But no, there's no staff overlap between us... we may have been hosted by them for a while after Bob passed, but the relationship has never been better than 'strained', sadly.

Looks like they were in the midst of moving parts of the site to cloud hosting, Now that it is finished, you might try again... see if its resolved?

MadTechOne wrote: I like both communities, but this one has the the advantage of just focusing on one primary thing Whateley.

*nods* And I have done my damndest to avoid going the route to overly customizing. That means we continue to benefit from standard security and feature updates without having to reapply all of our own custom elements and bring those up to date with the new code every time we want to upgrade a little. BCTS does things in a number of non-standard ways and that makes upgrades and migrations harder, especially migrating their database of users and stories.

There are some aspects of this site and build that I'd love to change, I had very little familiarity with Joomla when I first set this up after all... I was just working on more or less desperation mode at the time, trying to get something up to replace the hacked site while the community was still willing to give us the benefit of the doubt. With what I know now, the site would be a lot more flexible and powerful... even without getting into customization/coding. But moving to that now? going to be a challenge, because some of the things, once integrated, don't come back out easily... and especially rebuilding the security framework, may be easier with a fresh start than trying to migrate over existing data. And ugh... I really don't want to migrate over all the data again.