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(February 2016)

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CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
I think the best clue to restore time is in this tweet...



...If they're doing alphabetically I guess tvforum will unfortunately be towards the bottom of the pile. At about 4.30pm yesterday they were at C apparently.
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
Well supposedly it won't be long now...
Quote:
Current Summary Of Issues (15/02/16 - 05:52)
web75, web76, web77, web78 - the sync between the two NAS drives and pair has now completed, which means we can now put the filesystem back as normal from 'read-only' to allow writes to occur. This is essentially the end of the work now and last issue resolved. We won't mark this as 'resolved' just yet - we'll closely monitor over this morning at least.

Ref: http://www.webhostingstatus.com/

As of posting and attempting to connect to the site I'm getting a server error, a yellow screen stating...
Quote:
XML Parsing Error: unexpected parser state Location: jar:file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Mozilla%20Firefox/browser/omni.ja!/chrome/browser/content/browser/aboutNetError.xhtml Line Number 438, Column 68:
<div id="ed_connectionFailure">&connectionFailure.longDesc;</div>
-------------------------------------------------------------------^
LL
London Lite Founding member
As with cases of sites going back online, it'll take time for DNS servers to point to the new place, so I can't access www.tvforum.co.uk just yet.
VM
VMPhil
Looks like the site is back up but the pages are blank. Was able to login but only getting the header at the moment.
JB
JasonB
www.tvforum.co.uk briefly re-appeared for a few moments just now. It went away again when I tried to log in.
VM
VMPhil
If you go to a forum page like http://www.tvforum.co.uk/thenewsroom/ you should get the header

EDIT: Now showing temporarily unavailable pages
JB
JasonB
VMPhil posted:
If you go to a forum page like http://www.tvforum.co.uk/thenewsroom/ you should get the header

EDIT: Now showing temporarily unavailable pages


I'm getting that now too.

All we need now is CW to provide some music while we wait.
VM
VMPhil
JasonB posted:
VMPhil posted:
If you go to a forum page like http://www.tvforum.co.uk/thenewsroom/ you should get the header

EDIT: Now showing temporarily unavailable pages


I'm getting that now too.

All we need now is CW to provide some music while we wait.

Funny you should say that, I found this: http://www.istemp.co.uk
LL
London Lite Founding member
Now getting the temporarily unavailable page.
JB
JasonB
I'm sure that cue dot's just appeared on the unavailable page!
DJ
DJGM
With this outage being as long as it is, and especially with how such a thing would adversely affect small businesses, as discussed earlier, it's all the more of a good reason to host your website on your own server. DIY hosting means you have full control over your website, rather than paying for and relying on a 3rd party hosting company. You only need to pay your domain name, which can work out quite low-cost depending where you get it from, and have it redirected to your server.

The only drawbacks with this method are, you have know what you're doing with regards to server administration and maintenance, and also have the computer you've setup as a server running pretty much 24/7. You'd also have to check with your internet service provider to see if their T+Cs allow home servers. The choice of server OS is also important. While Linux is usually free, the server versions of Windows are far from free, but can be easier to setup than Linux based servers ... YMMV.

You don't even have to have a keyboard, mouse, or monitor permanently attached to the server, since it could quite easily be administered as a "headless" server, via Remote Desktop (or similar) from another device.
JB
JasonB
Their twitter profile boasts: "Officially voted the UK's best web host"

I doubt many of their customers are finding that now!

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