This forum was down for several days without any explanation, anyone care to say why?
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This forum was down for several days without any explanation, anyone care to say why?
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Re: Forum was done for several days
why
(actually, I have no clue but noticed it too, since last Friday)An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski -
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As soon as we find out, I will let everyone know. I am as much in the dark as everyone else, but at least the withdrawal symptoms will be over
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It is morning in Brazil and the first thing I checked was the forum. And this little one made me smile. A good way to start the dayOriginally posted by Qqmike
I could be a number of things, but the silence is a little puzzling. I had expected a notice on kubuntu.org, in the ubuntu forums and eventually here when the forum came back online. Communication is important :-)Regards,
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It seems to have been a technical glitch that no one noticed. I filled out the contact form at http://www.smfforfree.com/ telling them it was down and asking if they knew if or when it would be back. They fixed it and thanked me for telling them it was down.
It seems like someone started this forum and is now otherwise occupied.
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How did you find out that the forum was hosted at smfforfree?Originally posted by mando_hacker
many thanks for finding that out and getting it fixed!
EDIT: um, nevermind I just figured out, all on my own
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Open Source must have a paid service from smfforfree or something, as we don't have any ads, and also have our own domainComment
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The adds part had not occurred to me but certainly someone is paying for the Domain Name. Was it you who mentioned something about the possibility that a Guardsman had started this forum and then been deployed?
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Forum was done for several days
Just now noticed it reads "done" instead of "down."
Didn't even catch that early this morning
Wide awake here now. Bring it on.
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I don't think he has been deployed, but they do have to perform 1 weekend a month, and 2 weeks a year. He also does travel regularly iirc.Originally posted by mando_hacker
But this is all speculation without the, um Source
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I'm thinking that smfforfree is new. I tracked down the forum IP headers some months ago and ended up at a server in Vancouver, if I remember it right. Never heard of smfforfree.com.Comment
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What I am amazed at was a hosting service that responded to someone other than the paying customer in regards to a problem with the site.
That is awesome service... usually companies only want to talk to the customer and make it all but impossible to submit anything to support without having a login for an account.
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I agree. I was very surprised that anything happened. My guess is that they had done an upgrade or something and knew it was their fault, or at least it must be their responsibility to keep it operating.
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Still got the shakes over here...Originally posted by claydoh...but at least the withdrawal symptoms will be over
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I sent the following email to the tech support for the host on 4/3/09:Originally posted by mando_hacker
Never got a reply.Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:10:33 -0500
From: GreyGeek <GreyGeek@earthlink.net>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090319)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: zbrantley@a-c-s-inc.com
Subject: Kubuntuforums.net has been down all day.
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I can ping it but the index.php returns "Service Unavailable", and gives
no other information.
What's the problem?
Jerry L Kreps
a.k.a GreyGeek
GG
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