WW was down for a bit...

have trace route results

[moltar]

WW was down for maybe around 10-15 minutes around 10pm EST.

Here I got trace route results. Looks interesting.

Trace Route 
Remote Host Address: www.webmasterworld.com 
Timeout: 10  
Delay: 1000  
Packet Size: 32  
Maximum Hops: 100  
 # IP AddressHost NameResponse Time 
 1 24.43.12.1 41 ms 
 2 10.1.70.65 22 ms 
 3 66.185.83.169 22 ms 
 4 66.185.82.125 27 ms 
 5 66.185.80.145 23 ms 
 6 66.185.80.9 99 ms 
 7 216.6.16.29 44 ms 
 8 207.45.220.46 270 ms 
 9 64.86.83.218 53 ms 
 10 64.86.83.166 52 ms 
 11 64.86.83.214 51 ms 
 12 208.51.74.13 55 ms 
 13 67.17.67.58 59 ms 
 14 208.49.59.254 78 ms 
 15 64.215.195.158 76 ms 
 16 208.49.33.46 77 ms 
 17 No Reply 
 18 No Reply 
 19 No Reply 
 20 No Reply 
 21 No Reply 
 22 No Reply 
 23 No Reply 
 24 No Reply 
 25 No Reply 
 26 No Reply 
 27 No Reply 
 28 64.33.51.156 49 ms 

then hops changed...

Trace Route 
Remote Host Address: www.webmasterworld.com 
Timeout: 10  
Delay: 1000  
Packet Size: 32  
Maximum Hops: 100  
 # IP AddressHost NameResponse Time 
 1 24.43.12.1 48 ms 
 2 10.1.70.65 21 ms 
 3 66.185.83.169 22 ms 
 4 66.185.82.125 27 ms 
 5 66.185.80.145 24 ms 
 6 66.185.80.9 28 ms 
 7 216.6.16.29 48 ms 
 8 204.255.169.17 47 ms 
 9 152.63.71.93 45 ms 
 10 152.63.67.130 45 ms 
 11 152.63.65.26 47 ms 
 12 152.63.66.9 51 ms 
 13 No Reply 
 14 No Reply 
 15 64.33.51.156 75 ms 

[martinibuster]

Thank goodness.

I thought perhaps Brett had banned me by ip [webmasterworld.com] for something I said in the dmoz thread.

[edited by: martinibuster at 2:14 am (utc) on Aug. 8, 2003]

[moltar]

Common, you are a senior member, he can't do that to you :)

[martinibuster]

He can, and he would, and he might- if I don't watch my P's and Q's.

You full members, though, better watch your A-Z's. ;)

Anyway, I'm really really glad webmasterworld is back up. It was like when the electricity goes down and you rediscover conversation with the people who are physically around you.

[rogerd]

Seems like it was an outage that affected all of Westhost. Their site and several of mine were down as well.

[werty]

Yeah...it has been acting a bit slow for me all day today..noticed the use of an external image server?

I also thought my ip may have been banned from excessive use as well.

[dvduval]

Westhost just started a new special and they have been migrating sites over a new control panel.

They have some incredible deals.

BTW, I can confirm my sites were down for about an hour as well.

[moltar]

I thought they used external images for a while...

It's interesting. I think external images would bring more traffic.

Since most of us live on this forum, all the images are most likely to be cached. And there are only few of them anyways. But this makes HTML file bigger by writing full path.

This maybe would make sence for bigger images, but for repeating icons such as: bullets, edit button and such, I think it's better to host it localy... IMO!

Have no stats to base it on, just a thought :)

[moltar]

Seems they not just switched control panel, but their routing is different too. Look at the IPs. They change at hop #8.

[Yidaki]

>It was like when the electricity goes down and you rediscover conversation
>with the people who are physically around you.

Um, don't tell such fictions. Latest news we had in our local radio news was that we at least will have one more week enough electricity to keep the city where i live running. Imagine - world's #3 largest economy gets partly out of electricity because of the heat - rivers are so dry that the power stations don't have enough cooling water to keep running their generators. Go figure ... will take some nice holidays then next week (and my website's visitors as well i fear) ... :/

[moltar]

sounds like a sad story :(