You'll be forgiven if you didn't realiase, or if you forgot, but yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of Transformers At The Moon!

That's right, this site has been online for 10 years - that's longer then most of the "mainstream Transformers sites" and longer than many of the visitors to this site, and our other sites, have been interested in Transformers!!  Shocking.

On 25th October 1999 we uploaded the first rendition of Transformers At The Moon, hosted by our then ISP Freeola.  The sites name mirrored that of the email address we chose that Freeola hosted (an @themoon.co.uk)  domain which read as "Transformers At The Moon".  The domain / name was chosen as a tip of the hat to the Ladybird Transformers Tell-A-Tale Books, which features such names as "Decepticons At The Poll" and "Decepticons Underground".  We felt that an "at the moon" gave it a little bit of a spacey feel.

Anyway that was then, this is now.  We've been busy over the last 10 years, spent lots of money on the website and toys (one day we'll break even on the cost of the site, which has only seen sponsorships and advertisements over the last few years) and even more time.  Although the time spent updating the site this year has been far less then we had hoped (due to other commitments - namley work) we still have lots of plans, many of which we've had since the very beginning.

Thanks for visiting the site, we hope you continue to do so and if you'd like to contribute anything then please feel free.

After yesterday morning's problems we've managed to get the majority of our websites back up and running Transformers Animated, Lucky Draw Transformers and AFA Transformers are all back online, with Transformers Animated just missing episode summaries for the last 2 months (all the galleries are back).

Transformers At The Moon is now back working, missing two galleries, 2 months of news and most noticibly having problems with the stylesheet for the message board.

We will be looking at trying to resolve the remaining issues later today.

As many of you have found out we have been experiencing a few issues with the load on the webserver over the last few days, which has resulted in limited access to our websites Transformers At The Moon, Transformers Animated, Lucky Draw Transformers and The Visionaries.net.

Steve spent half of the day today optimising various areas of the site and the server to help with the load, but this has proven not to be effective enough.  We will continue to work on a fix for this over the weekend and throughout the week until the site is back up and running permanently.

We simply ask for your patients and suggest trying the website again after a 5 minute delay if you receive the errors.

Today marks the 9th anniversary of the launch of Transformers At The Moon.  On the 25th October 1999 we uploaded our first webpages to the domain www.transformers.themoon.co.uk hosted and owned by Freeola.  The domain (themoon) was chosen by us out of a list of various domains which Freeola used, as we felt it had a space theme, which seemed appropriate for a Transformers site, and when our email address was read out it sounded like a Transformers Tell-A-Tale story ("Transformers at the moon").  Thus the website gained it's name.

Since then we've moved to our own domain, transformertoys.co.uk,  so the domain doesn't fit as well as it used to.  The website has been hosted by several companies including Freeola, Catalyst, Spry, Amen and another company which folded, with the owner going on a run between the Freeola and Catalyst hosting.

The site has had three message boards, 8 major code re-writes, exceeded it's allocate bandwidth (10x over) before being moved hosting companies and had over a terrabyte of data accessed in August 2008.

The site was started, and is still run, but two inviduals, has been entirely coded by hand (other than the message board) and has been  worked on almost everyday since it was launched.

The site was created innitially so we could show case our Transformers collection and interested, to help other fans see toys which they may not have owned (or previously seen).  We're still working our way through our collection of Transformers (now over 2100) and have lots of plans for the site (too many plans for two people and so little time).

We'd like to thank everyone who has visited the site and / or emailed us over the last 9 years and hope that you continue to do so.

Unfortunatley the DNS server our domain register is using is currently unable to process .co.uk domains. This issue is totally out of our hands, but we shall be contacting the company to find out why this keeps happening. In the meantime the TransformersAnimated.com, LuckyDrawTransformers.com and TheVisionaries.net are still functioning.