Forum Down

I am at GMT + 5.5 hours(India)...It was down on 18th March morning from probably 07:00 in the morning to 14:30 in the noon.However I could only not access the forum,but I could access the Conitec site.

It was awefully often down the last days. And I dont live in the U.S. as you know.

Same here. ( Sweden )

It was down for 4 or 5 hours
and also for some shorter periods after that.

No forum, No Conitec site, No nothing
I don't complain .. this is for information only

Kindly
~Roland

Im in the uk and it was down from midnight onwards, i tried again at 4 am and it was still down sunday night.

Yeah, that happens pretty often. I'm from Germany...
sometimes the server is down over an hour. At least my browser just loads and loads, but doesn't receive a page.

Southern Hemisphere, down for long periods preiodicaly

Yesterday the forum was down for 4 hours or longer.
I live in The Netherlands, and I was not the only one experiencing trouble in accessing the forum.

Yep, had trouble accessing the forums the whole evening (around 19:00 GMT+1).
Server did not answer. The conitec and 3dgamestudio.com website however were up and running.

Yes... it was down for all Saturday evening
Sweden

same down all day saturday and part of sunday

it was down an hour ago and it was down satyrday 7pm to sunday 2 am (GMT+2) or longer.

Confirmed... down on Sunday also in Sweden
Mostly irritating when this keeps on each weekend.

From Saturday evening until Sunday afternoon! About 50km distance from the server (if it's in Dieburg).

nooooooooooo
of course it hasnt been down.

just a mass illusion, because the server logs do show nothing suspicious!

or maybe it's just a placebo effect, because we all have read this thread, so we just THOUGHT the server was down because our sub-conscience made us think so!

All day yesterday again ! (I know, I'm imagining it)

Since saturday, an underwater cable between europe and north amerika is damaged, which can cause
connection problems to servers in the usa. DNS resolving works, but traffic can have downtimes,
as the other routes may have overload.

hm. 1and1 is loactaed in Germany, so I am.

AH, thats probably why it was down for me,
cheers.

then why couldn't USA-Forum-Users access the forum?

just be honest and give in that the server has been down.

Same in Australia +10 hours, the forums are down for long periods now and then.
Over the Easter weekend could only access for a few hours.

hm, its quite often down. e.g. the last two hours it was not available here. maybe you are at 1&1? that would be an explanation

this was like the longest down time...It was off since yesterday night.It just came back now...aah I hate missing the forum like this

A suggestion for Conitec.

At my work we have a server that delivers taking magazines to
customers each night. Sometimes the server hangs.

We have solved this problem by writing a small applicaiton on
another machine that checks if the servers is up and working.
If its not, email are sent to a couple of emplyoees responsible for the server.
They may then restart the server remotely. In fact they can restart the
server physically by activating an TCP/IP relay and then using Putty
set things up.

This solution has worked very well. In the best of worlds the servers
should not hang - but as we live in a real world they do, and when they
do its always at weekends when no one is there.

Perhaps something for Conitec to consider

Kindly
Roland

Just for confirmation, the server was down here in Belgium as well all day long yesterday

Cheers

Frazzle

Sorry for the forum downtime on Sunday and Monday. It was a hardware defect of the forum server. This was probably also the reason for some brief downtimes last week. Due to the holidays 1&1 could not replace the hardware immediately, but it will be fixed today. There may be some final down times today due to the work on the server.

here as well on 3 comps in nethrelands
and if i look on my download list there was yesterday 2 hours online and to 6 hours not then 1 hour it was on 14 hour offlines and now its online for 3 hours and maby longer

i hope conectic can fix it

yes , in us "massachusetts" down also

Down again for around 12 Hours. Hope this isn't going to happen every holiday
break.

been down almost all day today (from what i can tell), plus some of yesterday.

nice to have you back.

julz

Also down in germany also all day, since yesterday evening.
So it cant be related to the trans-atllantic connection.

Down again today, all day.

Down in the AM, and all PM until I went to work On Monday night, the 24th here in the US. Seems like it happens a lot .

ok enough now !..they're fixing it

YAEH!!!! The forum is currently online! (congrats! )

indeed, it was down all day long here in southern germany.

It was down until a few minutes ago.

Trust me to sign up just when the server was down for days. I thought it was always like this and was going to ditch gs altogether and go with panda3d

I hope this is fixed ASAP. I was only on for about 10 minutes today and I got
the dreaded page not found eror. This is really really really annoying
"To put it politly".

The new forum system looks fine, it seems like its upgraded.

The only bug i see is no names shown after "by" at the right column-new topics.

I miss the old bright style
The new one is awful as the topics are written so small...

The standard style shows the postings in ridiculously small font.

I agree. I already have a high monitor resolution, now it makes things that much smaller.

Thanks. That was a fast fix
At least posts are now readable with Gamestudio style.

YEAH new style!!!
but I have got 1 suggestion!!

If you show a code than it´s really really small and you can´t see it

PANIC!

EDIT:
Also, 'preview' button in 'full post' has no text, and checkboxes have no description.

The font is simply too small (css?)
for the new forumstyle

This makes it hard to read.
Especially since the monitor resolutions become bigger
and not smaller.

There is too much unnecessary stuff in the new ubb forum

Clear your cache, the font should be fixed.
The unnecessary stuff can be removed by doing a simple click in your perferences - the first thing I did

I really need the old grey-style, and the smilies are to small.

the css of code and quote tags needs something like 90% instead of a fixed width.

most pms i have ever written seem to be in my inbox again even if i already had deleted them. over a thousand... :p