Thanks, Voronwë
Well, I'm getting consistent errors just about every post I attempt. That is, I press the "Submit" button, it times out. I open another window to see if the post has gone through, and it hasn't. So I go to the original window, press the "back" button, and then submit again. When it finally goes through, I see that it has double-posted.
At least two people have posted that they also have trouble posting, and who knows how many other people are as well, but haven't mentioned it.
I know that one of the concerns about going through with the move is that we'll lose posts, but if we're losing posts anyway because people give up, or worse still, give up on the board entirely, then I think that the temporary chaos caused by moving is by far the lesser of two evils.
But, as a last-ditch Hail-Varda attempt, I think we should write to our current hosts and give them one last chance to fix matters. I'm willing to write it myself, but if anyone considers themselves to be good at writing polite-but-assertive letters of complaint, they can compose it, and then I could forward it to our hosts.
Anyone?
Here's what I think should be brought up in the letter:
1. There have been an unacceptable number of unexplained board outages caused by the failure of the MySql server
2. Members have been having trouble posting because of timeouts
3. We have another site on your server which has been having identical problems
4. There is a strong feeling among our members that we should move to a more reliable hosting service. If we stay, are we likely to see improved service?
5. If we do decide to move, could you confirm that we can take our domain name (board77.net) with us?
Edit: The same thing happened with this post: first it timed out, then double-posted. I deleted the extra post, though.