I'm glad to see the forum up again. I am curious as the reason for the downtime events, as there have been a few during the short time I have been a member. I see that the static HTML portion of the website is up during these events. It's only the dynamic PHP pages that have issues. When I've had such issues on web sites I've run, it related to one of 3 things -- a never ending script/program, a short burst of traffic from publicity such as a radio show mention, or bots. I once had tens of thousands of bots trying to sign up on a forum in a period of less than a minute. I had to IP block a good portion of China until I figured out how to prevent it. Feel free to not answer, if you'd prefer. I appreciate the forum and do not mean to be offensive. Instead I am curious and also hoping some one here might have ideas for preventing future issues.