I noticed the site went down today, perhaps from a load of new users...
anyway, if dave or the community is interested, I am a software programmer and host a few community websites and would be more than willing to put ascend's forum or whatever else needed onto my server, I really like this community and the concept and would like to help if i can. I'm using bluehost for my hosting service, let me know as I know how hard it is to keep things rolling
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-chris
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