Apparently the site was moved over to new hardware in the past few days. Unfortunately I wasn't warned that this was happening.
I had seen a SS mail saying they would be updating many of their servers over the Dec/Jan period but from the email it sounded like it was a standard update of the operating system and no exact date given.
It's only after investigation of some other oddities, that I've found out about the move to new hardware, and that an error had been made with DNS.
Hopefully it should now have been corrected, but there may also be some problem with email not being sent too.
I'm therefore guessing that I'm now on one of their standard racks which will in turn I no longer have the bespoke hardware. Sorry guys not that much that I can do about it. I did have a really good web host but since the takeover Im just a tiny fish in a very big pond now. I did spend a considerable amount of time some months ago looking at other hosting, but my options are limited as there are certain requirements I need such as fully managed, cpanel & uk based.etc. I'm not really in a position anyhow to be wanting to spend time transferring everything elsewhere.