Downtime?

Disciple of The Watch · Wed, 6th Jun '07, 6:59am

During today, I've attempted to check out the BoM, a I've stumbled upon a good old 404 - or rather the new 404s, the ads pages. Couldn't log on any parts of the site - the BoM and even the SP site leaded to a 404.

Since no one has pointed out yet, I thought I might as well do it. Oh, it happened twice, at least to my knowledge.

The Magister · Wed, 6th Jun '07, 8:14am

That happend to me last night, but I think it was just my connection acting up.

Nakia · Wed, 6th Jun '07, 8:44am

I've had sporadic trouble of that kind but usually if I hit 'back' button and try again it works.

Marceror · Wed, 6th Jun '07, 4:43pm

I was getting 404s yesterday when attempting to hit sorcerers.net as well.

Dinsdale · Wed, 6th Jun '07, 5:42pm

I had the same problem last night.

Felinoid · Wed, 6th Jun '07, 6:20pm

These problems are due to Tal having to change hosting providers. It'll be bumpy for a while, but we can ride it out.

Taluntain · Wed, 6th Jun '07, 7:15pm

Actually, the problems mentioned here had nothing to do with the change of the hosting provider (we have a separate one for SPS accounts).

The problems you've seen were due to a mistaken change of the domain name servers during the transfer of the domain to a new registrar. I've fixed the error on the registrar's part two hours after they've made it, but since DNS changes, once made, take several hours to propagate all over the world, my fix was basically a few hours behind the initial problem, which means that it's come while the servers around the world have just started accepting the erroneous "new" DNS servers. So depending on your location, everything was a bit of a mess for a while.

DNS propagation usually takes up to 48 hours for the whole world, so it's possible that some of you might still experience issues today or tomorrow, but hopefully not. Though I'm not quite sure how you've managed to see SP's 404s (which would require you being able to access the domain, obviously), and 404s shouldn't display when there are legitimate pages there, but the domain mess-up is the only explanation I can think of at this point. If you still notice any odd things going on after tomorrow, do contact me with a bit more detail (and if at all possible, a screenshot of the issue).

Disciple of The Watch · Wed, 6th Jun '07, 8:15pm

I pondered the possibility of DNS issues as one of the possible problems (along with server downtime, which seemed the most plausible), but I didn`t considered it as possibly the root of the problem until Fel mentioned the hosting provider change.

The problem hasn`t popped up again, but if it does, I`ll grab a screenshot and send it your way.

Duffin · Wed, 6th Jun '07, 8:21pm

I had a 404 advertising page too for all of yesterday.

Uytuun · Sun, 10th Jun '07, 12:38am

I had no problems at all...

Enagonios · Sat, 30th Jun '07, 8:18am

I got a "site down for maintenance" at around 3:30am this morning

Taluntain · Sat, 30th Jun '07, 4:20pm

You mean on the boards? That was just scheduled maintenance. As long as it actually says maintenance, it's all right.

Wed, 6th Jun '07, 8:14am	#2
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Wed, 6th Jun '07, 8:44am	#3
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Wed, 6th Jun '07, 4:43pm	#4
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Wed, 6th Jun '07, 5:42pm	#5
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Sat, 30th Jun '07, 8:18am	#11
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Wed, 6th Jun '07, 6:59am	#1
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Wed, 6th Jun '07, 6:20pm	#6
Felinoid SPS Account Holder Who did the what now? Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: the Tzenkethi homeworld Posts: 7,470 Like: 0 Liked 1 Time in 1 Post vBActivity - Stats XP: 15,794 Level: 36 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 12.05% Daily Activity 3.31% Weekly Activity 1.89% Monthly Activity 2.46% Achievements	These problems are due to Tal having to change hosting providers. It'll be bumpy for a while, but we can ride it out.

Wed, 6th Jun '07, 7:15pm	#7
Taluntain SPS Account Holder Founder Resident Alpha and Omega Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Cori Celesti Posts: 20,802 Blog Entries: 13 Like: 158 Liked 122 Times in 79 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 53,153 Level: 58 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 49.46% Daily Activity 201.99% Weekly Activity 87.16% Monthly Activity 83.22% Achievements Awards	Actually, the problems mentioned here had nothing to do with the change of the hosting provider (we have a separate one for SPS accounts). The problems you've seen were due to a mistaken change of the domain name servers during the transfer of the domain to a new registrar. I've fixed the error on the registrar's part two hours after they've made it, but since DNS changes, once made, take several hours to propagate all over the world, my fix was basically a few hours behind the initial problem, which means that it's come while the servers around the world have just started accepting the erroneous "new" DNS servers. So depending on your location, everything was a bit of a mess for a while. DNS propagation usually takes up to 48 hours for the whole world, so it's possible that some of you might still experience issues today or tomorrow, but hopefully not. Though I'm not quite sure how you've managed to see SP's 404s (which would require you being able to access the domain, obviously), and 404s shouldn't display when there are legitimate pages there, but the domain mess-up is the only explanation I can think of at this point. If you still notice any odd things going on after tomorrow, do contact me with a bit more detail (and if at all possible, a screenshot of the issue).

Wed, 6th Jun '07, 8:15pm	#8
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Wed, 6th Jun '07, 8:21pm	#9
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Sun, 10th Jun '07, 12:38am	#10
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Sat, 30th Jun '07, 4:20pm	#12
Taluntain SPS Account Holder Founder Resident Alpha and Omega Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Cori Celesti Posts: 20,802 Blog Entries: 13 Like: 158 Liked 122 Times in 79 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 53,153 Level: 58 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 49.46% Daily Activity 201.99% Weekly Activity 87.16% Monthly Activity 83.22% Achievements Awards	You mean on the boards? That was just scheduled maintenance. As long as it actually says maintenance, it's all right.
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