The site was down for about an hour or so this afternoon when our database server suffered an issue which prevented any database applications from functioning.

If you were trying to access the site during this time, you will have probably received an error message similar to this one:

The issue has now been resolved however, and the cause of the problem has also been fixed so that we don't see anything similar happening again in future.

My apologies for any inconvenience this issue may have caused.