Last Friday (the 19^th) our webserver died and took our site (and all the other sites hosted on it) with it.

Unfortunately I had a overriding work commitment in the UK for four days, but before I left the Island I’d been promised by our hosting provider that no data would be lost, and that they’d bought a new server in a new data center which would be brought online and everything restored by Monday afternoon latest.

Boy did that not happen!

I arrived back on Wednesday night to find our host’s backups were all corrupt, so nothing had been fixed, and Ballagroove.com was just a blank holding page 🙁 Not good at all.

Since then we’ve been struggling to get Ballagroove.com back online. Luckily we do our own backups, but the last one we had was the 11^th so we’ve lost a week’s worth of updates, mail and mailing-list subscriber e-mails. I’ve got static pages and images from browser caches, and most (maybe all) subscriber e-mail addresses, so now I’ve got to try to reconstruct our database entries, templates, and mailing list from this information. Please bear with us, it’ll take a day or so.

It could be a lot worse and we are counting our blessings, but it’s still not good enough by a long way, so huge apologies to all our visitors and friends out there that have been unable to access this site or send us mail. If you’ve sent anything important within the past week please resend it and we’ll get in touch.

Thanks for your patience while we get this resolved!

Huge apologies if you’ve tried to access this site in the past 24 hours and have been unable to! All problems have now been resolved; please rest assured that we take these matters very seriously and will endeavor to provide a better service in the future.

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Yay, all done!
The problems were indeed the DNS propagation, which has now completed, so the site should again be accessible worldwide
Cheers folks!