After the downtime last week I have decided to provide a different means of communication in case the forums are not available for one reason or another.
32 hours of downtime represents about 99.997 % uptime over the last year but its still not good enough.
Every paid forum is not entitled to a newsgroup hosted here at ForumCo for no extra charge which should continue to work unless the main server is not available (it does not rely on the database or webserver).