Right for the people that missed the updates that were placed on the SS site before it all went down this is what happened. The host got hacked due to security holes in its servers. All they did was wipe over a few index.html files and delete a couple of files that were of no importance. The reason for the down time is due to the host updating everything and making their servers more secure. We are now fully back up with no lost posts or anything at all. For future reference if the Forum goes down then check the home page at www.scootershack.co.uk as there will be updates on the status there.
Erm... They then did yet more updates today... I wish they would bloody do them at 2am like most webhosting companys.