Website intermittent availability

[andrew]

Hello
The website has been only intermittently available for many/all of you for some time. I'm currently working with the good folks at the data centre where this site is hosted and I'm sure they'll have it sorted soon. I know I meant to do this a long time ago but I had a few issues (again) of late.

Will keep you updated (assuming you can log in long enough to read this!!)

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[jola57]

Cheers Andrew and thank you.

[andrew]

Okey dokey. "stuff" has been changed now and it just has to filter through. It'll either completely break the site or it won't. It's very black and white, no grey area at all

[Rini]

thank you! I have been able to get on all day

[andrew]

That's good!! Looks like the issue preventing people from getting to the site has been resolved however it will be monitored over the next 48 hours.

[Rose]

I have just received e-mail notifications for the first time in over 4 months so something is happening. Thanks!

[andrew]

WOOO!!! Excellent that means I did sumthin right

[DEE]

Thanks Andrew.Please take care of you DEEx

[mishb]

Never had any problems getting on.

You are doing an excellent job, but you also must look after number one........everyone on here understands that and we all thank you

Have a wonderful Christmas break, Andrew, and I hope all will start looking up for you in 2012.

[RudiK]

To me it appears like an ISP problem. Since our group is relatively small, it is very well possible that the URL is so low in the web/ISP hierarchy that the "search" through the tables is timing out before it reaches our servers in Australia. It may just be one server in the hierarchy that is causing this problem. I'm in the US Mountain Time Zone and on AT&T and I do have problems connecting to the site early in the morning, but I connect just fine later in the day. But, it is not consistent. Today I connected fine at 6:00 AM, but most of the time I have to wait until after 8:00 AM. The email notification is very inconsistent.

Thank you, Andrew, for all your hard work keeping the site functioning as well as it does. I worked for 40+ years in IT and can appreciate the hard work involved with maintaining the site, especially since it is free. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy new year.