Couple of problems happened around 8.05am.
phpBB : Critical Error
Error doing DB query userdata row fetch
DEBUG MODE
SQL Error : 1317 Query execution was interrupted
SELECT u.*, s.* FROM phpbb_sessions s, phpbb_users u WHERE s.session_id = '7661d3eb2ff9ef21457ddf2a65a5272d' AND u.user_id = s.session_user_id
Line : 344
File : sessions.php
was the message I got when I clicked on the forum index link.
phpBB : Critical Error
Could not connect to the database
was the message I got when I then tried logging in to report the first problem. Then site seemed okay by 8.10am though.