Website stuff

[andrew]

Hi folks, it's me again....finally.

I have a major issue with some background settings that make the site appear in your browsers. As a consequence, as I stuff about 'under the hood' so to speak, you may notice that the site disappears for a period of time. This period could be up to 48 hours but should hopefully be a lot less. This will happen in the next week or two.

My own fault. I forgot to pay a bill

PLEASE don't freak out if you get a 'site not found' error or something similar, it'll only be temporary.

[Sangye]

LOL No worries! Thank you for everything you do to keep this forum up and running. It's a tremendous gift to people all over the world.

[Rini]

Yes, thank you very much!

[chrisTIn@]

I could not reach the site for a while, but now everything's okay again.
Thanks Andrew!

[drz]

I could not reach the site for a while, but now everything's okay again.
Thanks Andrew!

I missed when it was unavailable and was wondering how everyone was getting along. It is nice to have it running again.
thanks!

[vdub]

It was demoralizing not to be able to get to the site..... Glad it's back up. :-)

ISP and DNS change?

[andrew]

Hi Vdub, yeah I remember you are of a techincal mind Basically what happened is when I was away overseas the name server domain expired. I couldn't get it back out of redemption without paying $250. It was still working in that the site was available but I couldn't access the server at all and eventually of course the site would disappear. I elected to set up new name servers instead with one of the hundred or so domain names I have (don't ask lol). The dudes at the Data Centre were extremely helpful and it would have gone without a hitch except the domain that I chose to use for the new name servers was pointed elsewhere which I overlooked which destroyed everything until one of the support guys at the DC very gently pointed out what my issue was

[andrew]

...and thank you to my three new assitants. You've all got messages by now. More will be forthcoming!

[Thakator]

Andrew, I would be happy to send you a chunk of that $250 you had to shell out if you would let me know the best way to do so. Ron

[andrew]

Thanks Ron! In the end i didn't need to pay the $250. I just did some work in the background to get around it. Thank you for the offer though, very kind