First of all, sorry for the long downtime on our main website.
Over the past few years our main database has just been getting slower and slower. It was last rebuilt in 2017 so it was well overdue for an upgrade. A few days ago the main database was so slow that we decided to take it offline, and rebuild it with a modern operating system and up-to-date software.
We expected the downtime to last a few hours, but then during the upgrade everything fell apart. While Cody was down, his twi