Unfortunately the 10 days wipe was an unforeseen issue that occurred due to our old hosts.So, 10 days worth of data getting wiped is justified by better overall connectivity and less downtime?
I dunno I'd just imagined that 2 days of downtime would have assured 100% bug free forum at start-up.
2 days would have been the time it would have taken me to manually get everything sorted myself but I was at the mercy of external companies.
The forums are also hosted as a sub domain of our main site which similarly had to be reconfigured to the change (Still some problems there)
Quite a lot to do but I've had prior experience.