And with the membership being down we have had upset people who have not had a reply, I have just sent over 20 e-mails, again with the membership being down after being up to date gives e hours and hours of work, oh the joy of being in the club !!!
It’s all working ok now, and with a new server we are promised much more reliable service.
The lengthy outages have been caused by the old server crashing a couple of times a day, and taking several hours to re-boot, when it should have been minutes. Because of this, transferring existing email data from the old to the new servers was repeatedly stopped and re-started. Eventually the server stayed alive long enough to do the job, which meant we kept all the old data and settings, and did not have to set up a complete new set of email accounts, along with consequent changes to the website, a job which would probably have taken me a whole weekend.