Probably due to a flood in search bot visits (I can not imagine a DOS attack on Diptera.info) one of the panel scripts on the opening page of the site caused an overload on the database server. As a result the host decided to make the database unavailable until I had sorted the problem. Well, I had sorted the problem but next it took them more than 24 hours to get things back. Anyway, the panel was disabled and another panel is now presented in a more simple version to also reduce the server load. Hopefully everything will keep on moving normally now.
I apologise for any frustration this may have caused you. You can count on it that I was frustrated...
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I think this site have backups all weeks.
 Better would be all the hour.  .Keep up the great work. The backups ARE incremental but at present the FTP program still needs to check which of the more than 20,000 files on the server are new or updated. Takes 1-2 hours, depending on the connection I use.
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Unfortunately I can imagine diptera.info being DDOS'ed. Lets hope it doesn't come to that. But if it does, I hope you have proper backups - losing the accumulated wisdom (and wit) of diptera.info would be a major loss for the world economy