Downtime

As many of you will have noticed we were off line from Friday afternoon until Sunday afternoon for scheduled maintenance. We actually moved the site to new hosting due to a few technical problems with our old host. I always love it when shop owners complain about how easy life is for internet retailers and how internet retailers have low if any overheads, I just wish that was true and if any of them would have liked to have swapped their last 2 weeks for mine they can have it. Anyway there are some new benefits for you customers with this new hosting the site should even more reliable, we have never had much downtime but we should now be up 99.something % of the time but the main benefit will be the site will be served faster as we have paid out extra cash to buy dedicated bandwidth to serve the site in fact:-

10,000GB (100Mbit) data unshared at 100Mbit speeds. (means nothing to me)

All this does mean that other development which should have been done and implemented by now have been put back yet another month but hopefully the new database will be live before December so we wont grind to a holt this year. There are other bits under development that you will notice other that reliability and speed so keep tuned they may come online one day.