I will be attending Venturefest Yorkshire at the York Race Course on 7th February 2006. If anybody would like to meet me in person they are more than welcome to do so.

We are not exhibiting at the event so if you want to meet me then it would be best to email me and we can arrange a suitable time to meet up.

At approximately 12:03GMT today (Tuesday 23rd January 2006) the server CHIEFWIGGUM became unresponsive and failed to reboot to normal operation.

As a result the server was taken offline. This meant downtime for all websites hosted on CHIEFWIGGUM and also Helm control panel access was suspended.

Service was not restored until 14:25GMT.

Total downtime 2 hours and 22 minutes.

The issue appears to have been with a corrupt driver on the server which has since been restored.

Our apologies to all customers affected by the outage.

One of our incoming gateway servers suffered an error with the greylisting processing. This means a higher than normal amount of spam may have been received over the last 6 hours.

Due to the design of the system this did not affect delivery of any mail. Users may however have seen a slight increase in the amount of spam received.

This issue has now been resolved and the service is running as expected.