Rob F. Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 <p>"Poor tech hosting," eh? Maybe it's good to find this out sooner than later. Aparrently RFF needs to go back to where it was. And maybe we need to start chipping in a few bucks a year for better tech hosting?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john carter Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 <p>Many years ago I tried to donate, but the 'Boss' said. "We don need that now." I hope this isn't too stressful for Steve but I'll bet it is.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank_scheitrowsky1 Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Some info here: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1038&message=39943166 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
35mmdelux Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 <p>With all respect to the Head Bartender, maybe one of his unpaid techs forgot to pay the electricity bill! Electricity works wonders, without it not even a CRAY supercomputer will work! Just an idea...</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fidel_inguanzo Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 <p>I see all the geniuses are out in full force.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back alley Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 <p>the latest from stephen...<br> techs still dealing with server problems<br />we hope to have the site up by tomorow nite.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back alley Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 <p>unbelievably bad tech support from a large hosting company promising 24/7 365 support</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobmichaels Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 <p>Joe: I want to know what you have been doing during this break?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back alley Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 <p>really poor timing for me as i have been mostly immobile for this past weekend...it doesn't hurt if i'm sitting...</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougmiles Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 <p>Timing is pretty good for me, fortunately, as I've been vacationing on Maui with a flaky internet connection throughout the RFF outage. Getting out and about using an M9 as I trail my wife around the shopping venues. The waitress at Ruby's Diner this evening said the M9 looked like a cool camera, as I took a couple shots of them doing the credit card the old manual way since their system was down...<br> Hope you'll be feeling better soon Joe</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inneract Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 <p>"unbelievably bad tech support from a large hosting company promising 24/7 365 support"</p> <p>Perhaps the tech support team is Occupying Wall Street?"</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helmut_kosky1 Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 <p>Yes, I talked to Stephen today. They should be up later today or tomorrow. Waiting for parts to arrive to complete the repairs.</p> <p>Helmut K.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F. Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 <p>There's a message up now:</p> <h3>Rangefinder Forum is Experiencing Problems</h3> <p>We are experiencing problems with the hosting provider. We are aware of the problems and are frustrated that they have not been resolved sooner. We understand this should have been resolved within hours of the failure but we are at the mercy of the service provider. We hope to be back on line as soon as possible.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbhill Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 <p>This is the company that host the site according to Sean over on Apug. Perhaps if we bombard them with calls & emails something will get done. www.layeredtech.com</p> <p></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank_scheitrowsky1 Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Hopeful they'll be able to just bolt on the new water pump and everything will be good to go. Sure hope that there are no corrupt files/data. That may take longer to repair/restore/reprogram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick_van_Nooij Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 <p>The back-ups are fine, apparently...</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F. Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 <p>I don't imagine it's a logistics problem of obtaining parts. I can order and receive a Leica from Hong Kong or a Luigi case from Italy in half the time this has taken already. With all the servers that must be in use in today's world, surely parts are readily available overnight. It must be a difficult troubleshooting problem. Headscratching over what part to replace. It's been seven days now! When RFF gets back up, I'll bet there will be a popular thread about this.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kens Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 <p>wow...public-facing business server(s) completely down for a week and counting, during a major US holiday period. that's beyond my comprehension. unless the center burned to the ground, it sounds like incompetent design or contingency planning on the part of the provider.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randolph_tolley Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 <p>It's an evil inside job holding us hostage.Time to call in special forces to route out these villians</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 <p>It was actually me. Call it cut-throat business tactics.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_difford Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 <p>When I went to the rangefinderforum.com link...the message is down and now it talks about webhosting and domain name etc. Have they lost the domain name???</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_5050610 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 <p>Wow--a week!<br> There is more to this than meets the eye, so to speak.<br> What in the world is REALLY going on?<br> I miss RFF!<br> Hopefully it returns soon.<br> Paul</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kens Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 <p>RFF is back up again. We'll see if it sticks.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_5050610 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 <p>Ken--not up here--what address are you using?<br> Thanks...<br> Paul</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inneract Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 <p>I'm able to get in, but it's not really functional so far and takes me to godaddy when I click on anything.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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