back end site broken

[gubuntu]

Problem

The Goverment site supporting the plugin is not currently available at its original url but is at http://196.25.56.232/.

Proposed solution

1. get it to work with the new url and release the fix asap
2. bootstrap it to try known alternative urls
3. Fail gracefully with a useful error if the backend is unavailable

[ismailsunni]

get it to work with the new url and release the fix asap

Perhaps make the user able to change the base url, so that we don't need to release / fix everytime the url changes.

[gubuntu]

+1