Beginning later this evening, there will be a brief period of time each day when the forum will be closed for database backups. I'm going to try to set this up to run at a time when the forum will have the fewest visitors, but with our international crowd, there will still be users affected by the process.

If you are trying to log in, or if you are browsing the forum and you get a page saying, "The Forum is closed because a database backup is in progress", just take a handful of deep breaths and refresh the page. The process will likely take no more than 2-4 minutes to complete. Just enough time to refresh the beverage of your choice.