For some time now we've had intermittent server problems affecting the functionality of the site. Lots of bounced e-mails and database problems that annoy visitors and make my life more difficult. I've worked with my current hosting service since the site launched to fix the problems we're having, but so far no explanation has been offered.

Certainly, if we're going to push this site further into the public eye, its performance needs to be more reliable.

Today I set up an account with a new hosting service. During the next week or so I'll be transferring the site to the new server. Things will continue to operate as usual until I copy the signature and forum databases, at which point I'll be shutting the site down temporarily. This is to keep new signatures and forum posts from being lost during the transfer.

My hope is that this new hosting service will provide better overall performance and eliminate the database problems we've experienced several times in the past. Of course, there's no way to know until things are up and running at the new host. We'll see soon enough I suppose.