The title of this topic has two great questions - but as of yet there are no answers. I spoke with our host yesterday and they pointed me to the site that holds with forum's domain name (dsboards.com). For some reason everyone is getting the error
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www.dsboards.com’s server IP address could not be found." The answer for why that seems to be happening is quite technical so I won't get into the whole thing - but suffice it to say that domain name dsboards.com isn't being associated with the forum's IP address - so for a change an Internet error is telling us exactly what's happening. Yesterday afternoon, I emailed the site that holds the forum's domain name, but as of yet they haven't gotten back to me. So we're basically in limbo until they do. But hopefully you'll see this message before too long...
And the only reason I can access the forum is because I know the forum's IP address, so I can access (almost) everything using it rather than dsboards.com...