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www.bitsharestalk.org back online

Welcome Taulant :)

Thank you Cass for the support!

Yes this was a DNS issue. The transfer happened more than a month ago (everything worked fine as you guys know), however, Godaddy left it "pending" due to the privacy protection Amazon had setup for himself.  Apparently Godaddy has timeout policy whereas if the privacy protection is not disabled before the end of the timeout period everything is reset back to the original owner. Everything should be back to normal now.

Worst timing ever.  ::)

QuotePS:I would suggest some kind of announcement before such modifications in the future.
Or at least a public statement informing the users about the current status.

good idea :)

Could have increased the TTL so that it the old dns stayed alive until the transfer was complete. (for future reference)

Quote from: liondani on August 18, 2014, 03:52:43 PM

Quote from: bytemaster on August 18, 2014, 03:15:48 PM

Quote from: liondani on August 18, 2014, 02:48:49 PM
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why do you don't warn us before www.bitsharestalk.org was going "down" for maintenance?
and why don't you inform the public on the home page about this ?
it not good for bitshares image!!!

Unscheduled down time due to a DNS issue beyond their control.

thats explains it...


PS By the way it's a good way to attack bitsharesΧ "indirectly"... "just" by attacking the forum... just saying  ;)

Unfortunate timing to be sure.

It reminds me of a friend last year who decided to refurbish his store right before Xmas. Long story short, a lot of unforeseen circumstances lead to his store being closed over Xmas.

The plan looks good though. Hopefully the forum will be back online shortly.

Quote from: bytemaster on August 18, 2014, 03:15:48 PM

Quote from: liondani on August 18, 2014, 02:48:49 PM
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why do you don't warn us before www.bitsharestalk.org was going "down" for maintenance?
and why don't you inform the public on the home page about this ?
it not good for bitshares image!!!

Unscheduled down time due to a DNS issue beyond their control.

thats explains it...


PS By the way it's a good way to attack bitsharesΧ "indirectly"... "just" by attacking the forum... just saying  ;)

Quote from: liondani on August 18, 2014, 02:48:49 PM
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why do you don't warn us before www.bitsharestalk.org was going "down" for maintenance?
and why don't you inform the public on the home page about this ?
it not good for bitshares image!!!

Unscheduled down time due to a DNS issue beyond their control.

-5%


why do you don't warn us before www.bitsharestalk.org was going "down" for maintenance?
and why don't you inform the public on the home page about this ?
it not good for bitshares image!!!

Quote from: emski on August 18, 2014, 10:52:19 AM

Quote from: cass on August 18, 2014, 09:45:11 AM
Hey dudes,

yes not really optimal start for forum take over :).

Please just keep in mind:

Issue isn't directly related to Bitsapphire IMO. Cause to this issue is the private/anon domain registering from Amazon and the DNS transfer to godaddy(if i got it right :) ).
So we should take it easy and look into future service Bitsapphire will provide.

My 2 cents
cass

What about the performance ?

sry what!?

Quote from: cass on August 18, 2014, 09:45:11 AM
Hey dudes,

yes not really optimal start for forum take over :).

Please just keep in mind:

Issue isn't directly related to Bitsapphire IMO. Cause to this issue is the private/anon domain registering from Amazon and the DNS transfer to godaddy(if i got it right :) ).
So we should take it easy and look into future service Bitsapphire will provide.

My 2 cents
cass

What about the performance ?

Hey dudes,

yes not really optimal start for forum take over :).

Please just keep in mind:

Issue isn't directly related to Bitsapphire IMO. Cause to this issue is the private/anon domain registering from Amazon and the DNS transfer to godaddy(if i got it right :) ).
So we should take it easy and look into future service Bitsapphire will provide.

My 2 cents
cass

Quote from: emski on August 18, 2014, 06:09:16 AM
You might consider avoiding "maintenance" like this just after you announced taking over forum support.
It might be perceived as suboptimal by some users.

In order to get to the forum I had to check a new link from bitshares.org AND I had to confirm security exception for this (mozilla ),

+5%
Bumpy start indeed...

Hopefully the Balkan style service ends with this incident...

You might consider avoiding "maintenance" like this just after you announced taking over forum support.
It might be perceived as suboptimal by some users.

In order to get to the forum I had to get a new link from bitshares.org AND I had to confirm security exception for this (mozilla ),

Quote from: CLains on August 16, 2014, 07:45:55 PM
sidenote: why does dotp2p say 8 days, did DNS change snapshotdate?

guess it was a bug on dotp2p site .. fixed now :) thx for info

 +5% sounds good