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Shipspotters all over the world => Shipping News and information => Topic started by: Dave Forbes on March 04, 2013, 04:35:57 PM

Title: Website down?
Post by: Dave Forbes on March 04, 2013, 04:35:57 PM

I wondered if anyone had experienced the shipspotting website had gone down on Sunday through to Monday morning the 3rd and 4th March?.... :(

Title: Re: Website down?
Post by: Dеnis on March 04, 2013, 04:45:05 PM

Dave, I haven't seen any ships for more than 12 hours! Thankfully large Favourtes folders helped me to survive!
But will this happen again?

Title: Re: Website down?
Post by: Jens Boldt on March 04, 2013, 04:49:11 PM

Yes, Dave, it was the same over here. "Database error: Too many connections" for approx. 18 hours...:-(

Title: Re: Website down?
Post by: Lars Brunkman on March 04, 2013, 05:26:46 PM

Same over here too. When I finally got here today I saw no indications of the site having been down.
Luckily there were other sites with ships :)

Title: Re: Website down?
Post by: Ship's Cat on March 04, 2013, 05:43:16 PM

Quote from: Lars Brunkman on March 04, 2013, 05:26:46 PM

Same over here too. When I finally got here today I saw no indications of the site having been down.
Luckily there were other sites with ships :)

Plenty more ships on the sea...  ;) :D

Title: Re: Website down?
Post by: samson46 on March 04, 2013, 06:35:46 PM

Looks like some of us have been surprised to find that there is actually life outside shipspotting.com. Maybe we will be told eventually what happened.

Title: Re: Website down?
Post by: andrecas on March 04, 2013, 06:39:10 PM

same thing happened this side....  ??? (Eastern Canada - New Brunswick).

Title: Re: Website down?
Post by: Jens Boldt on March 04, 2013, 09:38:24 PM

Quote from: samson46 on March 04, 2013, 06:35:46 PM

Looks like some of us have been surprised to find that there is actually life outside shipspotting.com...

A life outside shipspotting.com??? That's heretic!!!:-D

Title: Re: Website down?
Post by: John Jones on March 04, 2013, 11:10:42 PM

Hi Ken,

Yes, these things will happen from time to time. It has to be remembered that this site is run for free, so considering that and the size of the site today it is quite remarkable how well things generally carry on. I don't think there are grounds for complaint if there is the occasional mishap. If anybody had to pay to be on here it would of course be a different matter.

Best Regards
John J.

Title: Re: Website down?
Post by: Clive Harvey on March 04, 2013, 11:26:13 PM

A bit of a relief to learn that others experienced the same problem.
However, I still am unable to open Category Quicklist.
Anyone got that problem?

Title: Re: Website down?
Post by: John Jones on March 04, 2013, 11:32:17 PM

Clive,

Yes I think the downtime was experienced by everybody and I have raised the issue of the category quicklist not functioning with our webmaster who will forward to those that can fix it.

Best Regards
John J.

Title: Re: Website down?
Post by: Clive Harvey on March 05, 2013, 08:51:39 AM

Thanks. I see the Category Quicklist is working now.