RD website down?

[Vintagedriver01]

Is RD staff aware of this, this week I did have this 2 times, the last one at 31 december.
Not a real problem btw, I only want to mention this.

 

[Kenny Paton]

Yes we noticed but thanks for ment8it just in case.

 

[Neilski]

Yes, the outage on the 31st was due to network problems in i3D's Rotterdam datacentre. I suspect the previous (shorter) one had a similar root cause.

 

[jgf]

I got "could not connect" messages. Checked via isitdown.com, it said server was not responding. Later got an RD splash screen with a "server is undergoing maintenance" message.

Visions of RSC, Blackhole, NoGrip, and SRMZ flashed through my mind.

 

[Neilski]

Visions of RSC, Blackhole, NoGrip, and SRMZ flashed through my mind.

Noooooo... :-S Happily, not the case!

 

[Neilski]

I've just remembered that the longish outage was on the afternoon/evening of the 28th (UTC time zone). Not sure I recall any outages on the 31st... (but then again I'm clearly a goldfish because I had already lost track of when the other one happened!)

 

[jgf]

I hear as you get older memory is the second thing to go.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Visions of RSC, Blackhole, NoGrip, and SRMZ flashed through my mind.

Don't forget VirtualR.net as well which is gone now too

 

[Vintagedriver01]

Just a notification but this site was not reachable, yesterday (23april) between 19:00h and 21:00h local time in the Netherlands, after 21:00h I did stop trying.

 

[Kenny Paton]

Just a notification but this site was not reachable, yesterday (23april) between 19:00h and 21:00h local time in the Netherlands, after 21:00h I did stop trying.

That's strange, I'm in UK and was okay throughout the evening. Maybe a localised issue.

 

[Vintagedriver01]

But everything like other websites and the tv, which is btw also from the glass cable source, was ok.

 

[Kenny Paton]

One of the mysteries of the internet I guess.

 

[GeekyDeaks]

That's strange, I'm in UK and was okay throughout the evening. Maybe a localised issue.

But everything like other websites and the tv, which is btw also from the glass cable source, was ok.

I looked at the access and error logs between 17:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC (which should be equivalent to the CEST window), but didn't see anything that jumped out at me and the site was still pretty active. Was it a typical 'unreachable' error @Vintagedriver01 ?

 

[Vintagedriver01]

it did nothing not even shows the web address.
iPad with safari webbrowser.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Just a notification but this site was not reachable, yesterday (23april) between 19:00h and 21:00h local time in the Netherlands, after 21:00h I did stop trying.

I am in the Netherlands and the site worked fine.

 

[Vintagedriver01]

FYI: It’s now 10:38h local time and at 10:30h the site was slowed down that it refuses tot connect.

 

[Neilski]

FYI: It’s now 10:38h local time and at 10:30h the site was slowed down that it refuses tot connect.

Pretty weird, but I think it probably indicates either an issue with your own ISP, or something wrong between your ISP and ours.
Next time you get this issue, it might be instructive to try the site on your mobile phone but with WiFi off (so that it uses another network path), though there won't necessarily be much to learn if your mobile phone provider is the same as your broadband provider.

 

[Vintagedriver01]

The 1G glass cable is the only source I have, while the rest of the sites like GTplanet is working OK.
There is only one site that I’m aware of, that do have the same slowdown and not connecting problem, is the SimHQ flysim website.

 

[Neilski]

There is only one site that I’m aware of, that do have the same slowdown and not connecting problem, is the SimHQ flysim website.

OK, that's possibly a clue, but if you mean the simhq.com website, then I'm not seeing a common thread - that site appears to be hosted in the US, while we're hosted in NL.
[Edit: I reviewed our logs again, and there's no sign of any blips in our outgoing traffic at the times you have mentioned above, so you may just be the unlucky victim of a routing issue that is only affecting a small portion of our users.]

 

[Vintagedriver01]

I was more give SimHQ as a sample, for this SimHQ.com site, the former racesim site and this site are the only sites who are giving connection problems. Besides these two, no other non reachable sites in my favorite folder.
But my message is more of an info, for me no big deal, because I know next day it’s always reachable.