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Our Website has been through a lot of issues today. We have been doing some housekeeping on the site which is one of the downsides of managing your own website. When you have a web design company look after it, you should make sure updating, upgrading and backup procedures are a part of what you pay for. We do our own, and did something slightly stupid!

Updates and the like need to be done out of your peak viewing time. 4pm UK time is our peak viewing time, although 9-10am is also very busy. You should make sure that you are not adding to your server’s problems by doing your house keeping at this time!

Having spoken to some ISP’s, they talk about some practices which may sound odd to lay men. There are some companies which take their website off line during the night. They argue that problems during peak time is more expensive than the benefit of offering 24 hr service. So they don’t – and spend the down time to make sure their servers are in peak condition – plus they get eco bonus points by saving energy!

As you can tell, our site is now back in action, and fully patched – however, that doesn’t mean that its safe enough to not back up regularly! If you have not backed up your site – do it now!

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