Current status: The main database (user registrations, front-page news 
items, links, redirects, and a bunch of other stuff) has been recovered 
and upgraded to mysql 5.7. I'm in the process of converting all the PHP 
code that talks to it to use mysqli as PHP 7 dropped the old mysql 
driver. The parts of it that I've done so far seem to work OK.

The news.povray.org forums database has also been dumped and recovered 
in 5.7 and seems OK but I have yet to start on the code conversion.

The povray.org and irtc.org FTP servers are now running again.

The mail server is now accepting mail from outside.

-- Chris

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