is there a way to move my forums, with all of their data, to my own website? I heard there is a fee involved in doing this.

Ialwayslose, there is a backup available, but it is still in a preliminary state -- a Beta version, as they call it -- and there are some problems with it. Therefore it is a part of the No-Ads "package".

You will find all information you need here (and in topics linked to from there), and please note the technical parts.

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However, you cannot get a backup (this way) until your forum, as well as the server, are back in order.

But there is nothing now to suggest that Raulken should fail to fix this. On the contrary, he has made progress this far. The problem is certainly not growing, even if it may seem so, if you look at the report thread. But it is more a matter of members that haven't seen the problem with their forum until now, combined with the fact that some forums need two or several "fixes", to finally get going. It's like push-starting a car in cold weather.

It takes time indeed, because Raulken needs to attend to all other domains and servers also during a problem like this. If not, we would get urgent problems on another domain, as a result. And also, and as important, he cannot meddle with the .ORG server "all the time". It must get a chance to "settle" between the rounds of "fixes", so to speak.

On an important side note, please put your forum URL --

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-- in you signature. Then it will show up with every question and post, and we can avoid a lot delays and misunderstandings.

FoxLeonard