+walkergeoff and wife Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 Geocache UK appears to be down. It has been on and off since yesterday evening - or am I the only one having problems? Quote Link to comment
+Pengy&Tigger Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 No you're not the only one. It's down. T Quote Link to comment
+Stuey Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 The site is down, the stats pages are down, but the forums are up Quote Link to comment
+Willy Wombat Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 Anyone have any idea of when it might be up again? I'm off on holiday tomorrow and was hoping to download a load of caches for South Devon and Weymouth today /Note to self - Be more organised and download data before the absolute last minute next time! Cheers Neil Quote Link to comment
+walkergeoff and wife Posted July 23, 2005 Author Share Posted July 23, 2005 Hi Here is an idea. Find the co-ords of the place you are visiting, either directly or through a GB OS grid converter, and then enter them into the search facility on geocaching.com, and you will get a list of all the caches near there. I have just tried this with my home co-ords and it works a treat. Have fun. Quote Link to comment
+John & Hazel Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 Anyone have any idea of when it might be up again? I'm off on holiday tomorrow and was hoping to download a load of caches for South Devon and Weymouth today /Note to self - Be more organised and download data before the absolute last minute next time! Cheers Neil From this cache page Hood View Do a search for nearby caches. Use the StreetMap link to see where they are. Quote Link to comment
+Birders Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 (edited) Sorry. .. disregard... should have read the title more carefully! Edited July 23, 2005 by Birders Quote Link to comment
+Teasel Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 The company who hosts the G:UK stats and T:UK sites is currently in the process of relocating all their servers to a new facility in Reading. They emailed me saying that they expected only about 1hr of disruption last night while they cut over, but it looks like things may not have gone as smoothly as hoped. Sorry for the disruption! Let's hope things clear themselves up soon... Quote Link to comment
+Matrix Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 Its back now (local time 13:46 Saturday) Quote Link to comment
+Skippy and Pingu Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 Its back now (local time 13:46 Saturday) Doesn't seem to be very happy though (Sat at 21:23), very very very slow . Quote Link to comment
+bobuk Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 Its back now (local time 13:46 Saturday) Doesn't seem to be very happy though (Sat at 21:23), very very very slow . slow is not the word i would use..... B. Quote Link to comment
+Haggis Hunter Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 My Stat's page doesn't open up properly at the moment, and the ratings links that I have on my cache pages aren't opening properly either, and of course it is extremely slow. (Sunday 24th - 11:18) There is obviously a glich with the server at the moment Quote Link to comment
+maxkim Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 Just typical I have linked my stats page to my profile and assumed it was my HTML at fault... spent ages checking the code just to find the fault was at their end.... oh well that the fun of computers.... Quote Link to comment
+rufty tufty boys Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Is it stll down/down again I'm just getting stuff I don't understand?? Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Is it stll down/down again I'm just getting stuff I don't understand?? We are doing everything we can. More information has been posted on the G:UK forum here I will post again when I hear more info. Sorry for any inconvenience This also affects the trigpointing database. Quote Link to comment
+Belplasca Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Is it stll down/down again I'm just getting stuff I don't understand?? Yes. It's still down. Looks like it can't find a file or two... Bob Aldridge Quote Link to comment
+Teasel Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 Yes. It's still down. Looks like it can't find a file or two... Yes, sorry about the confusing error messages. I received the following from DMC Internet: Ian, We are currently experiencing a problem with a primary RAID array encountered after the move. Our team is preparing a replacement for this troublesome hardware, services are continuing to run however you may be experiencing sporadic issues with speed and availability. One thing we are noticing with your site is that the processes appear to be queueing constantly, when the systems come back to life they are being bombarded with requests from your stats site which is likely to be aiding in the trouble, if there is anything you can do to assist us while we prepare the replacement that would be much appreciated. The server was running so slooooowly that all I could do to take the site offline was to delete a critical file. Now that there aren't hundreds of G:UK queries bogging down the server, I've managed to change the homepage to be a bit friendlier. Hopefully they'll get their disks back up to speed soon and I can switch the site back on... Quote Link to comment
+Teasel Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 I've just heard back from DMC Internet. They've put in a "temporary resolve" for the disk problems they were having, and have allowed me to switch the G:UK and T:UK websites back on. Let's hope their sticky plaster holds until a proper solution comes along... Quote Link to comment
+John Stead Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 Sorry Ian, I don't know if that temporary patch worked, but I'm getting the "This Account had been Suspended" message on both sites. Is it me or is everyone in the same boat? Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 (edited) Its OK we have not been shut down. They are moving the database to a new server and they have been asked that when they started to move it that they would take the account off line, to save any corruption in the data. It will take a while to move the 20,000 trigpoint photos and all the Stats/Trigpoint databases. It will be back on soon I hope Edited July 27, 2005 by Deego Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Its back up this morning, I have my fingers crossed that it stays that way for good. I cant take the pressure anymore :laughing: Quote Link to comment
davester Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Is it still down? I need a memory map download like urgent tonight. Quote Link to comment
+Skippy and Pingu Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Is it still down? I need a memory map download like urgent tonight. See this thread. Things seem to be working. If you end up on a page with guk2 in the address try replacing it with geocacheuk. Its worked for the few things I tried. Quote Link to comment
+Mr'D Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Poor show on their part - makes it sound like you haven't paid their bill - which is obviously not the case! Jon Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 still down for me didn't realise how much i use this site till now Quote Link to comment
+steviep Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 still down for medidn't realise how much i use this site till now Ditto! The weekends starts tomorrow & I want to up date my tom tom poi! Quote Link to comment
+John & Hazel Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Try this link to the Stats Page Quote Link to comment
+steviep Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Try this link to the Stats Page Nice one John and Hazel, Thank you! Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Try this link to the Stats Page Nice one John and Hazel, Thank you! Thank you ! Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 (edited) As John & Hazel says. you will get more luck with http://stats.geocacheuk.com/ looks like the DNS for http://stats.guk2.com/ has still not been moved. They have been notified. but transfers can take time to filter through Edited July 29, 2005 by Deego Quote Link to comment
+derrylynne Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 seems to have been a problem with this site for some time now... Quote Link to comment
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