SteveHopwood wrote:Tuesday 3rd Dec 2013:

We were all driven nuts over the weekend and much of yesterday, by the long periods when this forum was unavailable.

Tommaso (milanese) took it upon himself to investigate - he has run his own forums and knows how to tackle the back end of a website. He still is not sure whether the problems were caused by a hacker or by the increasingly heavy footfall here and the possible inability of the basic hosting package I paid for to cope with it.

He concluded that we needed one of the hosts dedicated server packages; these are not cheap.

In one of the most wonderfully generous actions I have witnessed, Tommaso booked the package and paid for it himself, for a year.

That is just a few US dollars short of $1,800 guys.

Thank you Tomaso. I am proud and honoured to be able to call you my friend. Our forum is indebted to you.

Nipponho wrote:We’re indebted to tomaso so we should at least know a bit about this member. I tried to visit members page and click on “T”, doesn’t work. Steve, can u tell us a bit about this lovely member since we are benefiting from his generosity? At least we should know which part of the world is he located.