The recent post box is ******, my id is not working, my backup id is not working, my backup backup id is not working, my posts are not getting through the answerbank is taking ages to proccess things. Were are your technical team, other than on the end of your phone waiting for you to pay them before they do anything. This mainanence work your doing, it shouldn't cause this many problems, unless your updating your server, i mean why don't you refer us to a different site tempory while you finish work on this one, its because you can't afford another �19.00 per month thats why. Well, answerbank being what it is i have to keep coming back, just make sure the problem is fixed. Also the problem stated bellow has occured
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80040e31'
oh, sorry, Gromit, didn't see your post when I started writing, but I did have the same regrettable instance in mind. I suspect while the plane was taking those nice aerial photos someone accidentally dropped a spanner that went down AB's chimney
The timeout is a simple timeout. The server has not been able to return data to the client in the specified time. It just means to come back later when it's not so busy.
An alternative is to construct your own web forum, but the huge hill such an approach always has to climb is how to recruit from nothing a massive userbase.