Thanks to all who responded. We are now back up and running as 
far as I can tell. After looking at enough blinkenlights after a 
night's sleep, it appeared that a switch had failed. The boot 
time failure messages were (apparently) irrelevant. 
What this all tells me is that we really are vulnerable and that 
we do need a new "Mr Server". Various people on this list have 
done the job in the past. It's a small Dell server (SC1420?) 
running Centos with LVM. It connects to the ISP, collects our 
mail, provides FTP and so on. We do expect to be changing ISP 
during 1Q2015.
We need someone with easy transport to Hill Lane, remote access 
will also be provided. Payment is annual for the the server 
maintenance, and also on a per-project basis. If you are 
interested, please contact me directly.
Stephen
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MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less Time
133 Hill Lane, Southampton SO15 5AF, England
tel: +44 (0)23 80 631441, +44 (0)7803 903612, fax: +44 
(0)23 80 339691
web: 
http://www.mpeforth.com - free VFX Forth downloads
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