I'm going to start looking at alternative solutions this month. I'm leaning towards a virtual server or cloud solution for the forums as they have come a long way in the last 10 years and you get a far more powerful solution for your money these days, plus you often get the option to just expand its configuration if you find a site exceeding the resources. So things like the number of cores and ram can just be increased as and when needed.

I have my suspicions that the current server is just running out of ram, and it's only dual core. Although strange how it has carried on ticking along until now. I bet Ionos updated some system OS files without letting me know, or made so other fundamental changes to how something works, which hasn't helped.

I'm not sure what to do with the main .com website though. It took a lot of time and effort to build, and myself and DC put a lot of work in adding content. I don't want to lose it. It's fully backed up, but the problem is that it's built on a very old version of Joomla, running equally old components that need very old versions of PHP and MySQL to run. I will look at virtual solutions that allow different versions to be setup as that might be a short-term solution. Long term it would really need rebuilding from scratch. Possibly an autumn or winter project when the weather isn't so good for gardening or other stuff. We will see.

Just be assured its all backed up and whatever happens to this server it will survive one way or another. And if we go offline it will be back later in the year.

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