AEngD website update

Regular visitors to the AEngD website may know that we have been experiencing sporadic problems with its performance, with some pages being slow to load, or sometimes not loading at all (we noted this in May too).

We are now undertaking a major overhaul. The site is to be moved to a new hosting provider, the supporting content management system will be updated, and - once the migration and update are tested and found to be working satisfactorily - we will be fixing various minor issues relating to how some information is currently processed and displayed.

In the meantime, there may be occasional outages as we undertake this work, for which we apologise in advance, and we will keep users updated via Twitter, Facebook and this blog.

Website issue

Our web host has alerted us: "SRV19 is currently under a huge DDoS attack and is therefore offline." In short, this means the server hosting the AEngD website is temporarily unavailable. We are monitoring the situation with the webhost and will post further updates via Twitter and our Facebook page.

Update (1830hrs) - The website is now back up again, having been down for approximately 140 mins. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Longer term, we will also be looking to review our hosting. There have been sporadic issues with page download speeds (the vacancies section can be verrrrry slowwwwww!) with pages occasionally timing out. Hopefully, once normal service has been resumed at our host, we can then discuss changes to our hosting regime.