I had big problems because I moved the DNS hosting since the 'free' service I had been using all of a sudden was not as 'free' anymore. The new free service has now been down or unstable for 24 hours so I had to move again last night. These changes can take up to 48 hours to propagatethrough the internet which caused quite some downtime today

Although we are a non-profit site and we have almost no income and still have to finance the prizes for our competitions, I have now decided to use a paid DNS service, even if I have to pay for it myself. I just cannot live with the risk of such downtimes - otherwise I would rather close down the site

Sorry again folks, I will try to make sure it will not happen again