I take no credit for this.....

Big thank you to The Jesus and Summeh for there help since the forum has been down.

I had given up hope of getting any compensation out of our hosts but the nicely worded emails ( jesus) and technical knowledge of summeh he have had a great result.

Due to the massive failure to transfer the site - we have been compensated with a full year of free hosting ! Thats a saving of £200 !!!

guys thank you so much....hopefully this has been a steep learning curve that will never be repeated.

Now we are hosted in the UK it should also mean a end to any downtime.

northy