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Title: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Kulyok on December 06, 2014, 05:11:27 AM
I haven't paid much attention, but some time ago, forums.gibberlings3.net stopped working for me. Instead, the link leads to http://gibberlings3.net/forums/, but it never opens fully, despite F5's and CTRL-F5's. Are the forums screwed now, or are the forums screwed for me?

(Since I do like to keep an eye on Angelo, RE, BG1 NPC and BG1 RE).
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: jastey on December 06, 2014, 06:26:13 AM
Same here. Unfortunately..
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: AstroBryGuy on December 06, 2014, 02:13:49 PM
Stopped working sometime yesterday, I think.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Wisp on December 06, 2014, 06:15:08 PM
gibberlings3.net/forums works for some of us, at least.
Edit: as do downloads.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: AstroBryGuy on December 06, 2014, 11:09:17 PM
Appears to be back up!

http://gibberlings3.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=26910#entry229967
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Ishad Nha on December 06, 2014, 11:46:18 PM
It was only them moving the domain:
"We are moving the g3 domain name to a new host."
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Kulyok on March 27, 2015, 02:58:56 AM
G3 is constantly down for me. I sometimes can access the site/forums, but most of the time I can't.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Ishad Nha on March 27, 2015, 03:20:34 AM
I just got through normally enough, ten minutes ago.
May have been a transient problem, I don't know.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Kulyok on March 27, 2015, 03:41:53 AM
Yep, got in one minute ago, but I suspect it won't be so easy an hour later. Been this way for over a week, I think.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Angel on March 27, 2015, 01:38:36 PM
G3 has been "moving their domain to a new host" for some time now, and I regularly encounter broken download links.  Seems to be mostly working at the moment though.

Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Salk on August 13, 2015, 01:45:24 AM
Both G3 and SHS are not online since this morning (UTC+1). A weird and unsettling coincidence.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Ishad Nha on August 13, 2015, 07:15:35 AM
Both still down, hopefully this will be resolved like all previous issues.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Bill Bisco on August 13, 2015, 12:29:14 PM
Who is the admin contact for G3?
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Gwendolyne_FP on August 13, 2015, 02:27:43 PM
mike1072 ??
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Mike1072 on August 13, 2015, 04:14:10 PM
You might get better info from Kat (theacefes), but I believe G3 and the SHS forums are using shared hosting that SConrad has arranged.  That's why the sites go down simultaneously.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: cmorgan on August 13, 2015, 06:56:08 PM
I got hold of Kaeloree and SConrad. They are working on it. May not be up until Sunday, but hopefully earlier.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Salk on August 17, 2015, 06:05:54 AM
Monday here and still down. Hopefully they're going to fix this soon...
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Bill Bisco on August 17, 2015, 07:49:06 AM
Agrees.  Those sites are very critical.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on August 17, 2015, 02:31:42 PM
Agrees.  Those sites are very critical.
Näh, just half of the community or the like, it's not like it's a big lose.
Notice the italiks.  ::)

Anyways, we all hope both of the sites get back up... or one that had boths content. :P
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Kulyok on August 17, 2015, 03:10:45 PM
I'm sure they'll be back in a few days.

For now, there's a new story DLC for Dragon Age: Inquisition and 12xp is still going strong in SWTOR, if you want to go through the class stories(some of which are better than KOTOR games) quickly and comfortably.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on August 19, 2015, 06:17:36 PM
This looks pretty bad ... wish we knew more.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Salk on August 19, 2015, 10:37:30 PM
Yes... It's been a week now and still down.

What's happened?
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Almateria on August 20, 2015, 09:20:55 AM
Quick reminder that all my stuff is also available at http://amessagefromthedystopianfutureinwhichallhumansmoveto.space .
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Avenger_teambg on August 21, 2015, 01:38:17 AM
All this talk about G3, but shs went down the same time.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Salk on August 21, 2015, 08:38:41 AM
Perhaps, but G3 and SHS have been down now for 8 consecutive days.

It's pretty bad, all considering...
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: jcompton on August 21, 2015, 03:13:58 PM
All this talk about G3, but shs went down the same time.

Probably because of the old rules about which forum was supposed to receive discussion of another forum being down. :)

In all seriousness, yikes. If there's anything we can do, let me know.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Ishad Nha on August 22, 2015, 07:32:23 AM
Does anyone have an email address for the G3 administrators? If so, they could send a query as to what is going on.
Use of Wayback Machine yielded a possible address:
kat@katbella.com
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on August 22, 2015, 08:44:27 AM
SHSforums just came online. The G3 seems to connect, but has trouble to load the first page.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Ishad Nha on August 22, 2015, 08:50:03 PM
This thread explains the problem, hard drives failing on servers:
http://www.shsforums.net/topic/58308-yey-online-again/#entry580458
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: AstroBryGuy on August 23, 2015, 01:04:04 AM
G3 appears to be back!
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Kulyok on August 24, 2015, 03:47:41 AM
Yay!
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Gwendolyne_FP on October 04, 2015, 01:06:06 PM
SHS forums down again?
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Salk on October 08, 2015, 08:31:04 AM
Yes, it's been down for several days now...
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Kulyok on October 08, 2015, 09:21:17 AM
Liam wrote that the domains temporarily expired and will be back before the end of the week. Which might mean two weeks, but they will probably be back.

(I need to duplicate my "fanfic links" for ME and DA somewhere else, though)
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Kulyok on December 09, 2015, 01:37:48 AM
AAaand G3's down again for me this morning. Anyone else?
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on December 09, 2015, 04:45:44 AM
AAaand G3's down again for me this morning. Anyone else?
Been there a quite a few times today and have not seen any downtime.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Kulyok on December 09, 2015, 08:15:04 AM
It is working now, certainly.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Ishad Nha on December 10, 2015, 01:13:05 AM
It might have been down for maintenance, they presumably have heavy traffic.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Kulyok on December 10, 2015, 01:25:37 AM
Well, it's down again this morning, and if continues to happen daily for hours, that's really bad news.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Mike1072 on December 10, 2015, 02:00:49 AM
Haven't noticed any outages the last few days.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Kulyok on December 10, 2015, 03:16:36 AM
Funny, because right now (for ~3 hours, maybe more), G3 forums are very, very unavailable.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Kulyok on December 10, 2015, 06:53:32 AM
Oh. Looks like G3 forums are banned by my work provider - though gibberlings3.net site itself is available. Funny, that.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: lynx on June 19, 2016, 12:34:50 PM
Both are down again. A day or three, I don't remember well.  :(

If anyone needs IESDP, our copy is still online: http://gemrb.org/iesdp
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Ishad Nha on June 19, 2016, 09:06:16 PM
Reading all posts in this topic shows that it is a long-running problem, which could last days or weeks...
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Creepin on June 20, 2016, 03:52:49 AM
It's funny how both SHS and G3 are down simultaneously, again, if I might add. Are they running on the same server, ruled by the same admin, or what?
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: jastey on June 20, 2016, 05:07:50 AM
Creepin: I think so, yes.

lynx: Thank you for the link!
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Azazello on June 21, 2016, 04:05:26 PM
It's funny how both SHS and G3 are down simultaneously, again, if I might add. Are they running on the same server, ruled by the same admin, or what?

Creepin: I think so, yes.

If so, tsk-tsk -- careless!
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: lynx on June 22, 2016, 08:02:38 AM
It's a newer development, also for cost-saving reasons.

Btw, did anyone ping SConrad yet?
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Argent77 on June 22, 2016, 01:54:59 PM
They're aware (https://twitter.com/liamesler/status/744869507391324160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) of the problem.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on June 23, 2016, 08:04:09 AM
Well, it's a waiting game now...
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Creepin on June 30, 2016, 05:25:23 AM
Are we there yet? ::)
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Kulyok on July 02, 2016, 11:01:57 AM
It's been quite a while - any updates? (I mean, even I've noticed by now :) ).
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Chev on July 06, 2016, 04:10:47 AM
I too am concerned.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Ishad Nha on July 06, 2016, 09:50:42 PM
Both are now back up and going strong, hopefully this will last for a while.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: lynx on June 23, 2017, 10:53:17 AM
Here we go again ...  :-\
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: CamDawg on June 23, 2017, 11:35:48 AM
Yep, HDD failure. Seb's rebuilding the RAID.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on September 17, 2017, 09:34:37 AM
Yeah, that was fixed, then.
But today again, can't connect to G3 nor SHSforums. Something seems to be down...
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Avenger_teambg on September 20, 2017, 01:03:43 PM
Any news what happened this time?
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Creepin on September 20, 2017, 02:57:49 PM
Damn am I worried :(
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: lynx on September 21, 2017, 06:33:12 AM
If anyone needs IESDP, it's now completely immune to such shortages:
https://gibberlings3.github.io/iesdp/
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Gwendolyne_FP on September 23, 2017, 08:40:13 PM
Any news?
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Creepin on September 24, 2017, 03:03:36 AM
Last time it was18 days downtime considering posts in this very thread, so there's still hope.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Cahir on September 24, 2017, 03:28:54 AM
According to Julius Borisov's post in this thread https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/66213/g3-and-shs-down/p1#lates (https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/66213/g3-and-shs-down/p1#latest)t it's nothing to worry about. Probably he is in contact with Liam Esler for this issue.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Creepin on September 24, 2017, 09:07:14 AM
Thanks Cahir, that's reassuring :)
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Salk on September 26, 2017, 11:23:18 PM
It's amazing how G3 goes down at regular intervals. I don't remember Pocketplane's servers out for longer than one day or two, if anything.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on September 29, 2017, 02:57:46 AM
And now they are back.

It's amazing how G3 goes down at regular intervals. I don't remember Pocketplane's servers out for longer than one day or two, if anything.
There's a few reasons I don't pretend to be aware of that make a humongous difference, but one is definitely a bot spam, that was a regular thing at PPG a long time ago, which was fixed as a late, while the other sites never really had. So peoples tolerance of those and other things. As it's a sort of balance between this and that and what the upkeepers like&tolerate.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: AstroBryGuy on May 24, 2018, 08:53:28 AM
And now they are back.

Down again. :(
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Gwendolyne_FP on May 24, 2018, 09:48:12 AM
SHS also down...
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: jastey on May 25, 2018, 02:46:13 AM
Yes, SHS and G3 are on the same server so it's either both or nothing. I hope they'll be up soon...
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Mike1072 on May 25, 2018, 08:00:03 PM
Kaeloree says they'll be back up in a day or two.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on May 29, 2018, 02:29:45 PM
Kaeloree says they'll be back up in a day or two.
Still can't get a lock on either... but the iesdp works. But that's due it being in another server.
EDIT: And now they are back.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Gwendolyne_FP on July 16, 2018, 12:13:04 PM
And now they are broken again...
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on July 17, 2018, 06:10:04 AM
Jeah.
To be specific, the SHSForum & G3 forum can't be entered, but others, like say IESDP links works.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Sam. on July 17, 2018, 06:55:15 AM
Who wants to bet it is *another* hard drive failure...?
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: CoM_Solaufein on July 18, 2018, 12:21:44 AM
Sometimes it just best to have a hosted site than one from your home.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Sam. on July 18, 2018, 07:12:57 AM
BTW, what happened to TeamBG/CoM/baldursgatemods forums?
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Creepin on July 18, 2018, 09:25:34 AM
Hmm, nothing happened, not for me at least. Are you checking the correct link (http://www.baldursgatemods.com/forums/index.php)?
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on July 18, 2018, 12:40:59 PM
Hmm, nothing happened, not for me at least. ...
You mean you have not seen the "This site has been cracked..." that CoM went into ? I won't put a link cause... I could click it, but my computer has no need to be protected, as it contains no bank etc info...

But others might still use a general utility computers that have such needs.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Sam. on July 18, 2018, 04:00:16 PM
Hmm, nothing happened, not for me at least. Are you checking the correct link (http://www.baldursgatemods.com/forums/index.php)?
For me, that link (and all others) redirects a number of times before ending up on one of various adult rated websites.  At least on my phone, I never even glimpse the forums.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: CoM_Solaufein on July 18, 2018, 11:54:15 PM
BTW, what happened to TeamBG/CoM/baldursgatemods forums?
Stupid hackers and a worthless host who can't seem to prevent such things. All fixed now.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: CoM_Solaufein on July 18, 2018, 11:54:42 PM
Hmm, nothing happened, not for me at least. Are you checking the correct link (http://www.baldursgatemods.com/forums/index.php)?
And that link is working fine.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: AL|EN on July 19, 2018, 07:34:23 AM
Creepin, could you provide info when SHS and G3 will be back online ?
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Creepin on July 19, 2018, 07:44:58 AM
If I only knew that myself, I would surely share that info! :(
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on July 21, 2018, 03:28:38 AM
If I only knew that myself, I would surely share that info! :(
Well, now they are back. :P
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Gwendolyne_FP on July 21, 2018, 12:08:10 PM
"False positive" for SHS.  ;)

Impossible to post anything : Database errors...
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: jastey on July 21, 2018, 03:28:24 PM
"False positive" for SHS. ;)

Impossible to post anything : Database errors...
Me too! I wasn't sure whether it's only me.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Gwendolyne_FP on July 21, 2018, 05:01:54 PM
Welcome to the club!
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Sam. on July 21, 2018, 09:01:18 PM
Hmm, nothing happened, not for me at least. Are you checking the correct link (http://www.baldursgatemods.com/forums/index.php)?
And that link is working fine.
I still get the redirects.  Note that I don't have any "adblock" software on my phone's web browser (and can't get any).
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Creepin on July 22, 2018, 06:18:49 AM
All seem to be working now at SHS.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Gwendolyne_FP on July 22, 2018, 02:02:37 PM
Thanks!
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: CoM_Solaufein on July 28, 2018, 11:09:12 PM
Hmm, nothing happened, not for me at least. Are you checking the correct link (http://www.baldursgatemods.com/forums/index.php)?
And that link is working fine.
I still get the redirects.  Note that I don't have any "adblock" software on my phone's web browser (and can't get any).

I have all sorts of security software on my PC so I didn't get that. Tried it on my phone and got the redirect to some shit site. Found a hidden htaaccess file in the forums that I just deleted. Now it works on my phone at least.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Sam. on July 30, 2018, 05:27:48 AM
Hmm, nothing happened, not for me at least. Are you checking the correct link (http://www.baldursgatemods.com/forums/index.php)?
And that link is working fine.
I still get the redirects.  Note that I don't have any "adblock" software on my phone's web browser (and can't get any).

I have all sorts of security software on my PC so I didn't get that. Tried it on my phone and got the redirect to some shit site. Found a hidden htaaccess file in the forums that I just deleted. Now it works on my phone at least.
It is working properly for me now also.  Thank you!
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Gwendolyne_FP on August 02, 2018, 06:22:50 AM
Back from holidays, and... SHS down again!  ??? :o ???
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Creepin on August 02, 2018, 08:13:51 AM
Yep but only this time it's down alone, without G3, which is quite worrying actually because this mean it is not the usual cause.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Gwendolyne_FP on August 02, 2018, 08:41:02 AM
OK. So you will have to wait before I can answer your PM.  ;D
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on August 04, 2018, 07:05:11 PM
Uuh, SHSforum worked for me at least a moment ago. So you might want to go check...
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Gwendolyne_FP on August 04, 2018, 07:08:07 PM
Thanks. Did not work this afternoon. Seems they are back again for a little while. ;)
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Almateria on August 15, 2018, 02:06:00 PM
Y'all shit's broken again.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on August 16, 2018, 08:43:33 AM
Y'all shit's broken again.
You probably mean the SQL error that's at SHSforum. Well, the G3 works at least for now... so time to troll there a bit.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Creepin on August 23, 2018, 03:59:24 AM
SHS back again, let's hope it will stay this way! :)
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on November 27, 2018, 01:43:29 AM
Well, they are both down again, with an SQL Error. Consider me shocked.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Sam. on November 27, 2018, 06:16:56 AM
This is really getting bad...
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: DavidW on November 28, 2018, 08:12:39 PM
For anyone who's testing the new SCS release candidate, there's a thread at the Beamdog forums you can use to give feedback.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Salk on December 03, 2018, 11:12:36 PM
How is it possible that the SHS/G3 servers are regularly down every year for several days?

Here at Pocketplane I don't remember a single day of interrupted service.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Sam. on December 04, 2018, 06:11:45 AM
How is it possible that the SHS/G3 servers are regularly down every year for several days?

Here at Pocketplane I don't remember a single day of interrupted service.
I suspect the server is physically located at Liam or Conrad's house, and any time they lose power or internet the forums go down.  Also, based on the number of reported hard drive failures, it wouldn't surprise me if they were trying to use incompatible hardware together (and/or the cheapest off-brand available on the internet).  I don't mean any of that as an insult and I get that maintaining these forums year after year is expensive for an individual, but these are my suspicions nevertheless.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Salk on December 04, 2018, 07:18:31 AM
I suspect the server is physically located at Liam or Conrad's house, and any time they lose power or internet the forums go down.  Also, based on the number of reported hard drive failures, it wouldn't surprise me if they were trying to use incompatible hardware together (and/or the cheapest off-brand available on the internet).  I don't mean any of that as an insult and I get that maintaining these forums year after year is expensive for an individual, but these are my suspicions nevertheless.

Hi Sam! :)

Oh I had no idea the server could be privately maintained. I hope I was not offensive. I thought we were dealing with some company that couldn't deliver a decent and reliable service.

Cheers!
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Azazello on December 04, 2018, 06:26:45 PM
Salk, my man! (er, or, woman!) How the hell ya been?!!

I hope I was not offensive.
Could you ever be offensive?  :D I think it that was for Sam to put out there.

I had no idea the server could be privately maintained. I hope I was not offensive. I thought we were dealing with some company that couldn't deliver a decent and reliable

I'm waiting for the two sites to come back online, I'm going to open a discussion suggesting it's time migrating the sites to a private company. And, that the Community show some love - translated: money - towards making this happen & maintaining them.

I'll post the link here when done.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on December 05, 2018, 01:22:03 AM
How is it possible that the SHS/G3 servers are regularly down every year for several days?
Here at Pocketplane I don't remember a single day of interrupted service.
This is because either your memory fails at you, or you hadn't been here that often, yes you were here before me, and so we know.... Cause I do remember days that the PPG has been offline.
Also the G3 is not technically offline, see (http://gibberlings3.net/), it's just that the forum database is corrupted, and so you can't access the forums of G3 or the SHS at all.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Salk on December 05, 2018, 01:57:15 AM
Salk, my man! (er, or, woman!) How the hell ya been?!!

Hey there! Your man, definitely.

Quote
I'm waiting for the two sites to come back online, I'm going to open a discussion suggesting it's time migrating the sites to a private company. And, that the Community show some love - translated: money - towards making this happen & maintaining them.

I'll post the link here when done.

Sounds good to me.

I contributed a little in the past and I am ready to do it again.

Cheers!
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Salk on December 05, 2018, 01:59:09 AM
This is because either your memory fails at you, or you hadn't been here that often, yes you were here before me, and so we know.... Cause I do remember days that the PPG has been offline.
Also the G3 is not technically offline, see (http://gibberlings3.net/), it's just that the forum database is corrupted, and so you can't access the forums of G3 or the SHS at all.

Well, I seem to recall announced offline periods due to server maintenance but prolonged unscheduled interruptions of service? Hm... My memory does fail me many times so it is very possible I simply don't remember.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Azazello on December 05, 2018, 11:40:11 AM
Jarno! Greetings brother!

How is it possible that the SHS/G3 servers are regularly down every year for several days?
Here at Pocketplane I don't remember a single day of interrupted service.
This is because either your memory fails at you, or you hadn't been here that often, yes you were here before me, and so we know.... Cause I do remember days that the PPG has been offline.
Also the G3 is not technically offline, see (http://gibberlings3.net/), it's just that the forum database is corrupted, and so you can't access the forums of G3 or the SHS at all.
Still as Asperger as ever! :D

Some things never change. :-yin

PPG doesn't have annual outages. G3/SHS's have occurred every year for...how many? Almost on a schedule, just around this time.

And if we can't access the forums, then that's no fun at all! :P :'(
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Salk on December 11, 2018, 10:22:38 PM
Agreed, Azazello.

And it seems the period is getting longer and longer... Must have been over a week now. Must investigate! :)
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Creepin on December 12, 2018, 04:25:58 AM
I've let Kaeloree know in case he wasn't aware of the issue - unfortunately that's all I could do. If anyone has SConrad contacts (outside of SHS obviously) you are welcome to ping him as well :)
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Mike1072 on December 12, 2018, 01:05:38 PM
SConrad has already been contacted.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Sam. on December 13, 2018, 07:45:08 PM
I don't suppose they gave an explanation or ETA of when it will be back online?
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on December 16, 2018, 07:45:07 AM
Well, SHSforums are online. Don't know about the G3, cause my antivirus still keeps me out, on this computer.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Gwendolyne_FP on December 16, 2018, 08:38:02 AM
G3 is also up. For the moment...
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: theacefes on December 21, 2018, 04:06:33 AM
We're coming back up soon - we are actually moving to a new host. Once it's back up there is a thread in Announcements that is pretty explanatory as to why the sites both went down. We'll also have some other updates to share.

As a general note, you can always poke us in the G3 Discord if you can't reach us on the forums. https://discord.gg/yTzjMTb <- this link should be good for a while.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: Mike1072 on December 24, 2018, 06:51:54 PM
And we're back! (https://www.gibberlings3.net/forums/topic/29913-welcome-back-to-g3/)
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: The Imp on January 09, 2019, 08:38:26 AM
PPG doesn't have annual outages. G3/SHS's have occurred every year for...how many? Almost on a schedule, just around this time.
Yeah, the PPG site just has memory usage problems. That can vary from day to day.
Now, as the G3 and SHSforums have again continued as separate entities, this both offline problem should be over.. but there's no BBC coding off mode in the new site, which will lead to bad messaging habbits, just like any change.

Things change, but the 'bad' is never, over.
Title: Re: G3 forums stopped working?
Post by: PrincessSuzie on January 27, 2019, 05:40:34 AM
Been pretty quite here... glad to see this site still alive though. So much memories. Hope Jason and all other modders are doing well. I do miss good old days.