I'm sure Ian has a sound air-gapped backup of the forum
We've discussed hosting and upgrades previously and he knows I'm happy to step up for whatever help is needed
At least it's not hosted in
CloudNordic
I do worry if its the end each time we get a more serious error than the database server falling over though. This recent week I assumed Ian was on holiday and the server got lonely
However, the assorted ransomware scum are getting more creative at destroying things and we've seen a lot of attacks recently on smaller companies with standalone web servers running older versions of things. Smaller companies generally have less to spend on security and upgrades and so are easier targets for the ransomware-as-a-service types.
Hopefully it goes without saying, but don't re-use passwords across different web sites. That at least mitigates some of the personal risk were the worst to happen to the forum.