Forum was down today

[Neville]

I tried several times to access fish forum but failed...knew that something was wrong, may be the server was down...this has happened before...no big deal... ...

[Lifesabeach]

You certainly had a 'few' members worried. It's terrible that you were at the mercy of others, that something so simple can cause that sort of disruption. Congrats and thanks for getting the site up again. Certainly did miss the interaction.

[bolivianbaby]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU MIKE! It's so good to be back!

[lorabell]

Thanks Mike!!!!!! We REALLY do appriciate all the hard work u do on here!!!!!!!...lol...the withdrawl wasnt as bad this time!!!! but really missed everyone!!!!!

[lorabell]

quick note.....I just spoke with Aquarist48...he is still unable to sign on in here. ANY SUGGESTIONS?

[Psychlist1972]

If he's still getting the error saying the site doesn't exist, it may be one of two things: 1. wait another day or two for the DNS records to finish replicating or 2. (if using a PC with Windows) start->run->cmd then type

ipconfig /flushdns

That will flush the local cache and force it to contact the provider's dns server to get the correct address.

If that doesn't work, it may be his provider still has the old record. Only time will fix that. Usually no more than a couple days.

For grins, he can also try accessing it by IP address (not sure if the forum software will allow that): http://174.123.200.146

[Edit: The server must be set up with host headers, as the IP address just brings you to the default apache page, so that won't work]

Pete

[xero2099]

good to see that the site is back was worried for a bit

[dee31]

hey ive being trying to log on for 3 days now , thought there was something wrong with the laptop..

[pinkfloydpuffer]

Thank you so much for getting the site back up for us Mike! Lotsa people were having withdrawals

[capekate]

It certainly is fantastic news to see fishlore back up and running.
Thanks once again Mike for all the hard work you put into keeping this site going for all of us to enjoy.

Yeaaa... we are back!

[Lifesabeach]

Originally Posted by lorabell

quick note.....I just spoke with Aquarist48...he is still unable to sign on in here. ANY SUGGESTIONS?

It appears he's not alone. Lucy would have been back on by now, so there must be a few members in the same situation.

[Darko A.]

About 4 days ago I started experiencing problems with FishLore.com getting always the same message (Page could not be displayed or similar, IE8 and FireFox 3). I though that the site was down due to maintenance (but it was a bit suspicious since no email notification was received) so I was patient for a couple of days with regular checks. Since every other site are working fine, I really do not know what is the problem except that my IP address could be banned or something. Now I am accessing the forum through some proxy server located in China (it was pain to find a working one at the first place, pages were loading very slowely with lot of failures). I also tried to access it via different ISP (good old dial-up in that case) and laso got problem. Could this be an indication of a more serious problem with DNS or some techy stuff?

Anyway, it is good to be here

[shellbell4ever]

just goes to show how much you take things for granted...I was going CRAZY with out you all Happy it's all better now

[Butterfly]

I missed all of you sooo much! Withdrawals were getting really bad
Thanks Mike!
Carol

[Lucy]

I still have only one foot in the door.
Hoping I can squeeze all the way in soon. lol

Thanks for all the hard work Mike, we really do appreciate it.

[Lifesabeach]

Originally Posted by Lucy

I still have only one foot in the door.
Hoping I can squeeze all the way in soon. lol

Thanks for all the hard work Mike, we really do appreciate it.

LoL! We tried to keep the door shut, but there is no stopping you. We have to change the locks!
Ken still can't find the keys to the front door!

[Lucy]

Originally Posted by Lifesabeach

LoL! We tried to keep the door shut, but there is no stopping you. We have to change the locks!
Ken still can't find the keys to the front door!

[capekate]

ohhh noooo Ken is still out in the cold? Ooo I was hoping when I saw that Lucy made it back, that the glitch was fixed and that Ken was here too.