What's happened this time?

Ok does any one know what the situation is with BG. at the moment?

I would hazard a guess that Tink's files have been deleted, corrupted, or made unavailable. The domain name is still hers, or at least someones, perhaps the machine all the files are hosted on has become unavailable?

Commander C. Obadiah

Commander Obadiah wrote:perhaps the machine all the files are hosted on has become unavailable?

Commander C. Obadiah

Nah, I allready checked that out, the host server IP is still valid, and other sites running from that server are still functional. Something else is going on.

A look at the google cache reveals little, although there is some oddness...

SS

A google search for "Master Pocketwatch thread" reveals 2 links to the thread, both of which, when clicked, re-direct to the front page.

Does this mean the files are still there?

Not necessarily. Google keeps a cache of most pages, generally several days or weeks old, depending on how long since the search bot has visited. The files may be gone, but I'm thinking it's merely a stuffup on the server's end.

Commander C. Obadiah

Well, the holding page has given me a little clue - UKREG (the company on the holding page) is actually a subdomain of Fasthosts, who are the hosting company for BG. I'm not sure what's going on, but I wonder if there has been a problem with the hosting subscription / payment?

SS

I have Tinkergirl's email address address, i shall try and email her today.

Everyone is fine but BG has hosting issues.

Apparently the hosting company, Fasthosts, has a CPU usage quota that BG has been regularly exceeding and has now been suspended.

Amanda and her technical staff are working on the issue and they thank you all for your concern!

Cheers,

Jake.

What can be done about that? Membership continues to grow, though the last I looked posts were actually slightly down (but probably being viewed more).

I imagine my own methods of browsing are not kind to CPU usage, but I need to do it the way I do because the software doesn't offer a better solution.

vonslatt wrote:Everyone is fine but BG has hosting issues.

Apparently the hosting company, Fasthosts, has a CPU usage quota that BG has been regularly exceeding and has now been suspended.

Amanda and her technical staff are working on the issue and they thank you all for your concern!

Cheers,

Jake.

Ah its good to know all should be back on track soon & its nothing too serious


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& for those who wish to see it again: http://steampunkworkshop.com/quick-note-tinkergirl-about-brass-goggles-outage

Thank you, by the way for posting up Spare-Goggles!

Would it help to have a few back-ups around in case of this? I have spare room on my hosting and no traffic since I haven't put forth any effort to make a real website at the moment.

If so, let me know cause I'd be happy to help in this manner!

Chris

Well that would explain everything. It makes sense if you look at the traffic for the BG site too : http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/brassgoggles.co.uk

As you can see by the chart, there has been a quite heafty upsurge in the traffic (though this is probably only due to the summer holiday season). Still, I'm guessing BG only has a fairly low quota allowance - that doesnt seem too excessive...


Hopefully things can be sorted out soon enough - though if Amanda has dificulties with the hosting, I may be able to help out (I have professional friends in the business....). I'll need to speak to my contacts first, before I can make promises though. (hell, if only I had a decent pipe to the internet, I could host BG myself - I have an IBM server sitting on the floor right next to me, which would be ideal... )

SS

Good to get some updates with whats going on!

Well it appears my host has adjusted a few things and gave me alot more data transfer... I'll have to double check on that... but if so, if I could get a monthly traffic for brassgoggles, I can verify that my hosting is fine, and I probably can at least set up a secondary if need be... I'm just sitting on no traffic at the moment anyways.

Chris

I'm glad it's nothing too serious =]

Glad that the gears are in motion, I'd assumed it was down to someone spilling tea in the workings...

Nikolas's mahoosive post count broke BG.

Phew! I'm so glad it's nothing too unfixable. I've been getting the DT's from no forumming!

I was worried it'd gone forever! Eep! Hopefully it'll be up and running again soon.

I wondered what had happened.
I hope the problem can be resolved.

And I'm sorry, I have turned into more of a lurker in recent months, so I am one of the causes for the hit count to still be high while posts dropped XD

*staggers in*

what a bally farce that was... ran out of sherpa's about 150 miles back....

Bad show. I got myself dropped in by parachute.

Glad to hear it wasn't anything more serious.

I was just about to post a new thing called the 'Air Kraken Bioluminsescense Augment-o-tron', but when BG went down I assumed it sucked so bad I killed the whole sytem. Glad to see that's not the case, and the situation is not permanent. markf

Ah! Good to hear the no scoudrel has made off with Brassgoggles , however my Dodo seems to have gone missing at about the same time, so I fell some involment in the affair my not be unlikley, should you by any chance see a medium sized but miserable looking Dodo in South London, please Pm me

yrs

A P-L