In late June, our virtual private server was attacked by an unknown party, possibly through a security vulnerability in our bulletin board software. In response our webhost destroyed and rebuilt our server. Regular readers and contributors had probably noticed that we were suffering frequent service interruptions prior to that event, the source of which remains unclear and may be completely unrelated.
Since we were not satisfied with the response of our webhost to these issues, we have migrated to a different webhost and also different bulletin board software. This had the unfortunate side effect that the years of content of The Bell became temporarily unavailable and many users were dismayed that valuable material may be lost to us.
I AM HAPPY TO REPORT THAT ALL CONTENT IS PRESERVED AND THERE IS NO POTENTIAL FOR LOSS
However (you knew the "however" was coming, right?
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) our new digs do mean that you will access the old material from The Bell in a different way for the time being. This is not intended to be the permanent solution but we have chosen this route for the moment in the interest of restoring as much functionality as possible as fast as possible.
You can access the full site of the original The Bell here:
www.thebellforum.net/Bell2