What happened to AqAdvisor?!?!


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Funny....i laughed when I saw it.
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Haha I just see "AqAdvisor", "AqAdvisor", "what happened to AqAdvisor?"

LOL theres one for Jan, Feb, March, April, December, October... hilarious.
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Theres three threads on AqAdvisor for march.
 
I know its crazy. I told you it went around every month...
 
I think they have a server problem. Maybe too much traffic is causing Denial Of Service problems, or a problem with their DNS, dunno. It's only happened to me once since I learned of them last July, and within a minute or two, they were back, but like StarGirl15 said, someone asks here on a regular basis
 
Yea it’s definitely hit or miss. I do like AqAdvisor though. Mainly as reference
 

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A little while back I wanted to use the aqua advisor calculator to mess around for a base of what I could get in a tank but the website didn't work. I just went back to it today and it's still like an empty domain basically. Does anyone know what happened to it? Is there still a way to access it? It's kinda sad cause it was really useful just to mess around with.
 
Lol, another aqua advisor thread. Eh, it works for me but I don't even use it.
 
Every now and then, this question always comes up... I'm not sure why. It just doesn't seem to appear for some people or certain servers. It has always worked for me, and is still working now.
 
This was a question the other day and pretty much once a month...lol ...It has always worked for me.
 

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When aqadvisor goes down I just try a different web browser. I mostly use Chrome, but will use Edge for that site.
 
It hasn't been working for me for ages and it's not working for my friend either.
 
It works fine Aqadvisor.com
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Note they do not support https - it will redirect to http and if you try to force it to https (some browser will do this) it will fail.

It hasn't been working for me for ages and it's not working for my friend either.
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It's only ever worked for me once. Every other time, regardless of browser, phone/computer, or time of day/night, I only get the domain sale page. Every once in a while (usually when I see these posts, ahaha), I pop on to check if it's working, but it never is.
 
Try my link above and tell me if it works - just click on it don't type it in.

It's only ever worked for me once. Every other time, regardless of browser, phone/computer, or time of day/night, I only get the domain sale page. Every once in a while (usually when I see these posts, ahaha), I pop on to check if it's working, but it never is.
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Try:
telnet 174.136.13.197 80
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.aqadvisor.com"
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My guess is you have a proxy with bad data in your path but i would need to know more about your environment (are you doing this from home; school; ... are you using comcast, or mobile or ?

Nope; I still get the domain sale page
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My guess is you have a proxy with bad data in your path but i would need to know more about your environment (are you doing this from home; school; ... are you using comcast, or mobile or ?
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I'm doing it from home. We don't have comcast, but a more local company (it services only certain areas of 6 states). As for my phone, it connects via wifi at home, although I have tested while out and about just to see what would happen, and it's still the domain sale page. However, the area I live in all pretty much uses that same local company.

It's ultimately not that big of a deal - I would really enjoy having the quick reference (even if it's not 100% accurate, it's at least something to go on) - so if I never get it to work, it's not the end of the world. So it goes, and all that
 
Try your phone with mobile data instead of wifi (assuming you have one of the major network like at&t or verizon) so that you have a different web provider than your internet service. You can also try:
nslookup
www.aqadvisor.com
(nslookup is a program dig is another program that does a similar thing); a third thing you could try is to change your name server to 8.8.8.8 (google nameserver) in case your network provider has stale data in the name cache.
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What we are trying to determine is if the issue is with the ip being returned by the nameserver or connection is being intercepted.

I'm doing it from home. We don't have comcast, but a more local company (it services only certain areas of 6 states). As for my phone, it connects via wifi at home, although I have tested while out and about just to see what would happen, and it's still the domain sale page. However, the area I live in all pretty much uses that same local company.

It's ultimately not that big of a deal - I would really enjoy having the quick reference (even if it's not 100% accurate, it's at least something to go on) - so if I never get it to work, it's not the end of the world. So it goes, and all that
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Try your phone with mobile data instead of wifi (assuming you have one of the major network like at&t or version) so that you have a different web provider than your internet service. You can also try:
nslookup
www.aqadvisor.com
(nslookup is a program dig is another program that does a similar thing); a third thing you could try is to change your name server to 8.8.8.8 (google nameserver) in case your network provider has stale data in the name cache.
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What we are trying to determine is if the issue is with the ip being returned by the nameserver or connection is being intercepted.
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I ended up changing my DNS server from DHCP to 8.8.8.8 and flushing DNS. That's what worked for me...so far.
 
Try your phone with mobile data instead of wifi (assuming you have one of the major network like at&t or version) so that you have a different web provider than your internet service.
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Well hot dang. Turning the wifi off on my phone allowed it to work through mobile.

I looked into what changing the namesever would do, but the instructions warned against doing it unless you have proficiency in configuring operating systems, which I do not have. Therefore, I don't think I'm going to mess with that and risk doing something I can't fix on my own. However, I have a cousin who works with computers, so I'll she if she'll be willing to check into it once it feels safe to visit people again -_-'''

Thanks for the help, and hopefully, all of this will help others when they inevitably wind up here!
 
It's back

I haven't been able to use this site for months. All I got was the domain sale page week in week out. I didn't realize how much I used this site for stocking reference. I guess that saying of "You don't know what you've got till it's gone" rings true because I literally smiled when it popped up and went right back to tinkering with stocking combinations.
 
That's good. It acts up for me sometimes, but it's not a big deal. I love fooling around on there.
 
That's good. It acts up for me sometimes, but it's not a big deal. I love fooling around on there.
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I was just playing around there. According to aqua advisor, a 20 gallon tank with 20 goldfish has a stocking level of 1240.
 

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If you still get the domain site you can 'dig' the domain and see when it expires; when the record expire and your dns is refreshed it will load the actual site.
 
Site is still down (I think domain expired and they didn't renew so someone else grabbed it?) is there a different way to reach the website, I really hope someone had a mirror or owner made a mirror somewhere.
 
Just start a new thread regarding the tank info and ask the forum what you were interested in finding out.
 
Site is up: Domain expires in august if they do not renew it.


Site is still down (I think domain expired and they didn't renew so someone else grabbed it?) is there a different way to reach the website, I really hope someone had a mirror or owner made a mirror somewhere.
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FWIW, last year an IT fish friend of mine told me to not got there. Something nefarious went down but I forget his tekkie words.
 
Nothing is ever wrong with it. Always works. 20200502_172206.jpg
 
Yeah it works for some, but what is being accessed or altered behind the scenes?

Maybe and hopefully nothing.
 
We've been through this. My guess is they moved the domain back around jun 2019 (which is the last time the domain was updated). The current dns entry has a 3 month to live entry but i suspect it was probably longer before the update in 2019. What is happening (I think) is you are retrieving stale dns entries which point to a machine that no longer serves the site. I provided instructions above to use a different a name server.

Yeah it works for some, but what is being accessed or altered behind the scenes?

Maybe and hopefully nothing.
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I tried using your instructions but it’s still not working for me . Hopefully it’s back up and running for everyone soon
 

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We've been through this. My guess is they moved the domain back around jun 2019 (which is the last time the domain was updated). The current dns entry has a 3 month to live entry but i suspect it was probably longer before the update in 2019. What is happening (I think) is you are retrieving stale dns entries which point to a machine that no longer serves the site. I provided instructions above to use a different a name server.
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???????
I am not accessing Aqadvisor and stated my reason why.
 
I tried using your instructions but it’s still not working for me . Hopefully it’s back up and running for everyone soon
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That is so crazy every time I type it in it pops right up for me. It seems to be a problem though because every month someone posts this...
 
when you type 'dig www.aqadvisor.com' what do you get ?
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Lol now I’m just confused, before when I used your link it did the same thing as always and didn’t work but now that I actually typed it in instead of using the link it worked!! Thank you so much!!
 
You have to change your name server; to do taht try setting your dns to 8.8.8.8 (which is google public name server).

For instructions on how to do that try:
Get Started | Public DNS | Google Developers

Lol now I’m just confused, before when I used your link it did the same thing as always and didn’t work but now that I actually typed it in instead of using the link it worked!! Thank you so much!!
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Site is still down (I think domain expired and they didn't renew so someone else grabbed it?) is there a different way to reach the website, I really hope someone had a mirror or owner made a mirror somewhere.
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No, I've been there twice today, once this morning and just a couple of minutes ago, and haven't had a single problem, but I did get the "domain for sale" page once, a couple of months ago. Their registration is still valid too. Whois aqadvisor.com

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I am not accessing Aqadvisor and stated my reason why.
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Sorry, that may work for you, but without evidence that there's something shady going on, I don't see a problem. I googled "is aqadvisor legit" and "is aqadvisor a security risk" and both searches turned up nothing other than the usual "is aqadvisor accurate" which almost all of don't think so, but it's still fun to play "what-if". If you actually have a link, I'd be interested.
 
deleted - i hate multi-quote it always screws up for me.
 
Did this work for you ?

Ok thank you!
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I believe what happened is the domain was being hosted at site that had either no ttl or an extremely long ttl for domain (ttl is how long a name server keeps the name cached). The site was then moved to a new hosting site but the domain was not flushed from the old site name server. I don't really want to go into detail how nameservers or http works but in a nut shell when the old site gets a request it puts up an advertisement. You can't actually buy the domain but they don't really care - they are pretty much non-nice people. The reason you sometime gets a valid site and sometime this er 'old' site has to do with the network provider you use to make the request and some other bit of randomness in how name servers work. If someone who visits the old site would 'dig www.aqadvisor.com' and show the entry we could provide more details. I suppose i could make a wild guess that it is network solution and if i was motivated to point my machine at their nameserver and get the response i could provide it but quite frankly this sort of thing happens all the time and the knowledge isn't that useful since i'm not in a position to flush the stale entry.
 
Hey guys, I know everyone hates this conversation, but I thought I would post my quick and dirty way to get it working. Guessing their IP isn't static, but their current one is 174.136.13.197 I used command prompt with the following command to get it although you could do a domain lookup too. If you do command prompt enter this command without the quotes: "nslookup www.aqadvisor.com ns3.aqadvisor.com" That will spit out the IP address. Then I modified my hosts file on my computer so my PC would resolve www.aqadvisor.com to the right IP instead of the purchase this domain site.

You can google how to modify the hosts file if you care to try it. I say this is quick and dirty because it isn't elegant and if the IP changes then I'll have to modify it back, but I wanted to check my stocking against that site and was tired of the stale DNS entry.

I should mention, once you are done you should remove that entry from the hosts file because if the IP does change then you will be stuck with it never resolving correctly and probably won't remember that you changed it ha.
 

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