Will it be before ordinary service will be restored on the forum ?

How long's a piece of string?

Just phoned the hosts up
and apparently the hard drive on the server has packed up!

So ive sent them an email to get the account changed to another server!

Luckily at the weekend i was looking into how you transfer a forum to another server, and one of the things i did was get all the data and setup sent to my pc(never backed it up before)

So if all the data is there i should be ok once the account is set up

but i dont know how long this will take

Well done for putting this one on in the meantime though Jamie