The recent outage, apparently caused by the folks at HOSTMONSTER, is, hopefully, over..
Below is an email i received from hostmonster on Jan 24 at...

The Forum website has now been converted to HTTPS:// thanks to our in-house technician Joe.

This may cause some (or all?) of you to have been logged...

Hoping this gets through...

Had problems logging in last night. Several is it down sites reported forum.thinkpads.com offline. Finally able to log...

sometime in the evening hours, eastern US time, the dedicated server hosting company, HOSTMONStER, to whom i pay over $200 monthly, failed, for the...

Noted a forum outage from about 2PM (PDT) to somewhere around 2:30. A couple of error messages were shown; one indicating that the board was disabled...

thanks to joe hayes the thinkpads forum is now running on a new hostmonster.com dedicated server with a higher server plan that is, on balance,...

We've completed the server migration and, if you're reading this, you're on the new server. Welcome! This migration was necessitated by the immense...

the DB locked up or something..
too many connections for MySQL and i did not have the expertise to do anything about it..

now, on the recommendation...

I have my area of interest bookmarked. I click on the bookmark and it takes me to the page with which I am interested. Then I must log in. But...

From Hostmonster:

As part of our longstanding effort to keep our servers fast and reliable, the server hosting thinkpads.com is scheduled for...

The forum dedicated server was configuered thus: 500 gig storage, 4 gig memory, about 4 cpu's..
on or about monday the 26th of Oct. the Apache OS...

Hi, i've updated my signature and i suggested that there was no way to chose a color for anything in the signature....so this is something that has...

this is a major update and will take about 20 minutes once the update process is started..
forum will be down for this time..
other changes will be...

Due to the massive spambot attacks forum admins have been banning IP's which appear to be used by these spambots..
IF you receive an ERROR message...

From about Dec. 4, 2014 and ongoing to about Dec. 8 2014 there was and will continue to be, from time to time, mass spam attempts on the...

well, wednesday afternoon at 13:30 EDT thinkpads.com went down along with most every www.hostmonster.com hosted website ESPECIALLY the important...

I will be taking the forum offline, from time to time, at about 3:00 am eastern USA time to backup the system..
this should take no longer than 15...

During some server changes a bad IP was left and while this has been corrected, now, at 3:23 AM EST it will take some time to propagate throughout...