+Trail Buzzards Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Can anyone get in to the regular site? Link to comment
+kweejee Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 I can't either, but they said they're working on it in a couple other posts. Link to comment
+SeabeckTribe Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 (edited) I just asked that question also in "GC log in problem" Is this what is happening to you also? Made post name correction! Edited June 30, 2007 by SeabeckTribe Link to comment
+Trail Buzzards Posted June 30, 2007 Author Share Posted June 30, 2007 It appears as if it is! Sorry for the additional topic Link to comment
+TrailGators Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 It is down and they are working on it. Link to comment
+SeabeckTribe Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Great minds think alike! You probably were typing your post as I was typing mine! Link to comment
+andGuest Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 I am glad I found this post as I was thinking of asking the same thing. I could not find any other threads. I was in the middle of logging my finds when it went down. I thought it was a problem on my end. Link to comment
+GeoBlank Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Life stops when some sites are not available.... I don't know what to do with myself Link to comment
+WRASTRO Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Life stops when some sites are not available.... I don't know what to do with myself I don't either so I thought I would respond to your post. I have caches to log and trackables to move. What ever am I to do? Link to comment
+Kabuthunk Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Yeah... I don't mind it going down on occasion, since it's such as massive, high-traffic site. It's to be expected, honestly. However, thanks to good old Murphy's Law, it seems to like going down when I only have a short period of time to log my caches. Methinks logging may have to be delayed until tomorrow for me Link to comment
+GeoDrill Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Its raining here and now I have nothing to do but listen to my wife? Man this is a drag. Oh well when it is running it is the best thing going Link to comment
+GeoBlank Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 (edited) My desk is getting cleaner... Good time for some people to try Waymarking... It is up! Edited June 30, 2007 by GeoBlank Link to comment
+Difranco Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 A site like this, as high traffic as it is should never go down so long as the systems were built correctly. Clusters of webservers, file servers, dbservers, redundant firewalls and redundant network paths should be in place. Link to comment
+LostMontanan Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Down again, 6:25 PM CST.... Link to comment
+GeoBlank Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 This is probably a coding problem where they are making tweaks on the fly... Code is probably synced across the cluster. The answer their is a dedicated dev environment... Link to comment
+Miragee Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 My desk is getting cleaner... Good time for some people to try Waymarking... It is up! Interesting . . . I am getting an error over there also . . . General network error. Check your network documentation. Been here before? Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Guess it's time to head over to the Off Topic forum and play some games. Link to comment
+GeoBlank Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Guess I will check out KillerPuzzles.com Link to comment
+sTeamTraen Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 > A site like this, as high traffic as it is should never go down so long as the systems were built correctly. > Clusters of webservers, file servers, dbservers, redundant firewalls and redundant network paths should > be in place. Groundspeak will send you the bill. Geocaching.com is not Google or Amazon. It has neither the requirement, nor (more importantly) the budget for 24/7/365 operations. My guess is that someone's cell phone has just rung and spoiled their Saturday afternoon. Link to comment
+Difranco Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 This is probably a coding problem where they are making tweaks on the fly... Code is probably synced across the cluster. The answer their is a dedicated dev environment... oh don't tell me they do that... Link to comment
+Tequila Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 > A site like this, as high traffic as it is should never go down so long as the systems were built correctly. > Clusters of webservers, file servers, dbservers, redundant firewalls and redundant network paths should > be in place. Groundspeak will send you the bill. Geocaching.com is not Google or Amazon. It has neither the requirement, nor (more importantly) the budget for 24/7/365 operations. My guess is that someone's cell phone has just rung and spoiled their Saturday afternoon. They already send us a bill. It is called Premium Membership. If someone's cell phone went off, they should be ashamed. Saturday and Sunday are their busiest days. I would expect they would have staff on site or certainly instantly available on the weekends. Link to comment
+GeoBlank Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Wow - I definately don't have that high of expectations. For $30 dollars a year I can live with a few bumps in the road. My GSAK is updated and full of enough data to keep me busy for several days of no gc.com For some reason the forums are more appealing than house work for me right now... I am sure they will get it fixed or complete what they started as soon as possible. Link to comment
+Tequila Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Wow - I definately don't have that high of expectations. For $30 dollars a year I can live with a few bumps in the road. My GSAK is updated and full of enough data to keep me busy for several days of no gc.com For some reason the forums are more appealing than house work for me right now... I am sure they will get it fixed or complete what they started as soon as possible. Mulitpy $30 by the thousands of users worldwide, add in the charge for travel bug tags, unique icons, tracking numbers for coins, and logo'd material. I am sure Groundspeak is not doing this out of the kindness of their heart. They are running a profitable....and growing business. I don't have that high of expectations either. Just saying that a reasonable assumption would be that someone would be immediately available on their busiest days. I am sure they are doing the best they can. And working under pressure is never fun. Could be worse. I was in the middle of poker game on pokerstars this week when their site went down. And that costs them a lot of money for every minute they are down. Link to comment
+GeoDrill Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 30 minutes to fix the problem. Good Job to the techs! Would have taken me a bit longer (ok a lot longer) GeoDrill Link to comment
+Difranco Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Good Job Tech Guys!!! I know your pain work the same type of work. Link to comment
+Glenn Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 <MC Voice> No, the site is not currently down. Thanks for playing IS THE SITE DOWN. The fastest growing game show on the Internet! Bob, tell our contestants what they have won... </MC Voice> Link to comment
+The Klever Boys Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 It's back up, but I'm not getting any notifications through when people find any of my caches. Link to comment
+Miragee Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 I'm getting this error when I try to upload an image to a log I posted a few days ago: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Server Error in '/' Application. General network error. Check your network documentation. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: General network error. Check your network documentation. Source Error: An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. Stack Trace: [sqlException: General network error. Check your network documentation.] System.Data.SqlClient.ConnectionPool.GetConnection(Boolean& isInTransaction) +474 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionPoolManager.GetPooledConnection(SqlConnectionString options, Boolean& isInTransaction) +372 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open() +384 Groundspeak.Web.SqlData.SqlConnectionManager.FillDataSetSP(String StoredProc, ParameterList Params, Int32 Timeout, Database database) +116 Groundspeak.Web.SqlData.SqlWaypointController.GetLogData(Int64 LogID, WptDataSources DataSource, Boolean IsReadOnly) +290 Groundspeak.Web.GPX.WptLog..ctor(Int64 LogID, WptDataSources DataSource) +192 Geocaching.UI.ImageUploadPanel.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) +1021 System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +67 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +35 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +98 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +98 System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +755 Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.2300; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.2300 Link to comment
+Deliveryguy428 Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 And it is back down again Link to comment
+Deliveryguy428 Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 And it is back down again Link to comment
+9Key Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 I can't get to the site now. This error pops up: General network error. Check your network documentation. Link to comment
Keystone Posted July 7, 2007 Share Posted July 7, 2007 Closing duplicate "the site is down" thread. Thank you to everyone reporting the issue. Link to comment
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