I cannot tell a lie, it was I. I did something silly on it
So well did I wreck it, I had to call the host Tech. Support line and have them give our server a very firm talking to. They did and all seems good again.
Part of it it still broke with little prospect of it being fixed in the near-term so for a while yet, we will maintain the status-quo with the forum databases continuing to live with me..
Big apologies for the poor service