BITOG back online

[y_p_w]

How long was the outage?

 

[terry274]

the last thread started was 11:30 last night. So, almost 12 hours?

 

[Zee09]

Very early AM on the east coast..
I thought I was gonna need another login

 

[Bailes1992]

I'm in the UK and got into the office 8 hours ago and it was down and only just come back up!

Didn't know what to do with myself without @TiGeo's memes.

 

[wwillson]

Any downtime is too long.

I have my not pleased face on this morning.

We still don't know what happened at our hosting provider. We lost connectivity, but our server and data were not affected.

 

[supton]

I was sad when I woke up, but am now much better.

Worst part is, not a lot of new posts to peruse. Oh well, I bet that will get rectified, and soon.

 

[Zee09]

Any downtime is too long.

I have my not pleased face on this morning.

We still don't know what happened at our hosting provider. We lost connectivity, but our server and data were not affected.

It's actually good. Makes one appreciate what they have.

 

[Pew]

Any downtime is too long.

I have my not pleased face on this morning.

We still don't know what happened at our hosting provider. We lost connectivity, but our server and data were not affected.

Sometimes I am glad I don't have to do IT things

 

[AZjeff]

I have my not pleased face on this morning.

 

[wwillson]

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Now that made me laugh! Yes, that's how I looked this morning.

 

[JeffKeryk]

Unplanned downtime is part of a computer system. Nobody likes it, but welcome to my world.

 

[researcher]

I was on about 1230am edt and things started to get a little slow in loading.. Within about 10 minutes on this forum it came out with a "Cloudfare" warning saying that it could not connect to host which is BITOG's site. After that it just wouldn't load. @wwillson I thought I'd share what happened. Might not make a difference but thought you'd like to know.

I thought you were upgrading the site and had to take it down.. now I see it's not that..

 

[wwillson]

I was on about 1230am edt and things started to get a little slow in loading.. Within about 10 minutes on this forum it came out with a "Cloudfare" warning saying that it could not connect to host which is BITOG's site. After that it just wouldn't load. @wwillson I thought I'd share what happened. Might not make a difference but thought you'd like to know.

I thought you were upgrading the site and had to take it down.. now I see it's not that..

I was on at the same time and had the same experience.

 

[JeffKeryk]

I hate computers.

 

[vavavroom]

We need a thread titled 'Where I was when IT happened and how I survived.'

 

[atikovi]

We need a back up site that could inform users that bitog is down so people don't think it's something on their end. I checked here this morning but not everybody knows about it.

 

[researcher]

We need a back up site that could inform users that bitog is down so people don't think it's something on their end. I checked here this morning but not everybody knows about it.

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That was the exact site I used to make sure my internet provider wasn't having issues.. But you're right, a lot of people might not know a site like that exists! good to mention it!

 

[supton]

When other sites are working, I just assume its an issue with that particular site, and not an issue on my end.

 

[Hall]

When other sites are working, I just assume its an issue with that particular site, and not an issue on my end.

Exactly, if one site out of many doesn't load, move on and just check later. Worst case, try and connect using a smart phone or a computer on another network and if it's still down, it's not you.

In the case of this outage, if people get a Cloudflare message, it's not 'your' computer that's not working.

 

[Astro14]

We need a back up site that could inform users that bitog is down so people don't think it's something on their end. I checked here this morning but not everybody knows about it.

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You are not a donor, and you contribute no money, and yet here you are making a request/suggestion that costs money.