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[CrimsonCasio]

works for me

http://casiofortissimo.earthforge.com/

[Andy.Davies]

maybe the uni is blocking itcos ur link dosent work for me

[CrimsonCasio]

perhaps the DNS hasnt fully propagated yet...

try: http://65.254.50.194...asiofortissimo/

[Andy.Davies]

yeah that link worked

[CrimsonCasio]

ok, then its that the dns hasnt updated

[casiokingdom]

good, my site is up again

[casiokingdom]

it's down again. what's happenning Crimson?

[CrimsonCasio]

works for me...

[casiokingdom]

all the earthforge sites weren't working for a while yesterday, but their back so np.

[CrimsonCasio]

for a few minutes today that happened to me too, but i tried (for instance) www.casiofortissimo.earthforge.com instead of casiofortissimo.earthforge.com and for some reason that worked

[huhn_m]

My E-Mail account is not working.

It won't let me log in ...

[CrimsonCasio]

hmm, all server stats are fine... i'll report the problem.

[Andy.Davies]

also the index paqge dosent seem to work www.earthforge.com, but maybe the uni is blocking it.

[huhn_m]

it works again now ... strange ..

[CrimsonCasio]

yeah... i'll take it up with my host... something isnt working right.

[casiokingdom]

Earthforge isn't working again at 9.00 am australian time.

[CrimsonCasio]

im happy to report that all earthforge.com dns problems have finally been resolved! it turns out I was right about it pointing to both the new server and the old server and they finally fixed it

so there should be no more problems... please check to make sure everything is opperational.

[genesis]

I have no idea where the FTP server is and how to access it.

I can 'login' using Open in Microsoft Frontpage and typing in the URL, but I can't find a login button in Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, this is driving me nuts!!!

It's in a file called FTP Locations on my computer but I can't find it anywhere.

OK... it works on other computers (opens up like a folder) but not on mine (it just displays FTP root and lists everything as a directory). Is this anything to do with Service Pack 2? Is ANYONE else having this problem, seriously I WILL HACK into Internet Explorer to add a login button to the bloody toolbar if I have to...

Edited by genesis, 27 November 2004 - 01:23 PM.

[CrimsonCasio]

i always just right click then select Login... does that work for you?

[genesis]

It used to open like a folder, but now it just says 'Index of ftp://ftp.earthforge.com/' displaying everything as a list, and when you right click, its the same as on a website.

[huhn_m]

You have to upgrade to at least IE 5.5 (I think). Login & folderlike usage is only
supported in these version (i.e. Upload).

If you don't need uploads do:

password AT host.com:21" target="_blank">ftp://username:password AT host.com:21

this should get you logged in.

(replace username, password and host.com with your information).

Be aware that IE stores passwords in historyas PLAIN TEXT!!!

Better use a REAL ftp program.

[genesis]

Ahh... someone disabled 'Enable folder view for FTP sites' under Internet Options > Advanced. Its still not working, but I haven't restarted yet, I'll do that now. BTW, another thing I installed around this time was Java 2, could that have anything to do with it?

Another thing, do you really need ALL the files, $NtServicePackUninstall$, ServicePackFiles and SoftwareDistribution in C:\WINDOWS? Honestly, what kind of program needs half a gigabyte EACH of installation files, running files and (get this) UNINSTALLATION FILES! I didn't know it took that much space to store the information required to remove something from your computer...

[2072]

you can remove the folder $NtServicePackUninstall$ (it's used only if you want to uninstall the service pack) but not the others, its what make windows NT stable: if a stupid program tries to replace some system files by its owns windows autaumatically restore the good one from ServicePackFiles.

SoftwareDistribution is used by WindowsUpdate, so you should keep it.

[huhn_m]

I can't upload anymore.

It says I exceeded the quota but I only use ~1 MB. I even deleted 3 MB before
so that there should be enough space but it still complains.

I only wanted to create a folder so this should not be a problem but it did not work

!!?!? :?

[CrimsonCasio]

it seems a few people are having troubles with FTP (mine works fine for some reason). im trying to get to the bottem of it.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Maybe your host started an anti-Internet Explorer propaganda and restricted ftp access to non-IE user only, lol, just joking . I know this is not IE because I had the same problem with other FTP clients. I can delete files, but I cant add any .

[CrimsonCasio]

Im pretty sure i fixed it

if i did, then its totally my fault in the first place... i made a backup of the entire site and accedently reloaded that page ~3 times when advant browser opened each time... therefor we were at -108MB untill a few minutes ago when i saw the weird number and took a closer look

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Lol that's odd

on that note Avant Browser rul3z!

seems to work fine now. No more 0 bytes corrupted files

[CrimsonCasio]

ya, sorry for the compleat mental lapse on my part... i try not to go brain dead again any time soon

[Dream of Omnimaga]

DAWN! It's down again!

[CrimsonCasio]

its Ok, this time its planned. im running another backup and untill i get it to my computer earthforge is going to be 2x its normal size, hopefully it wont take long. (probably just a few minutes)

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I finally uploaded everything. I don't know for now if its working however

[CrimsonCasio]

your site looks fine to me

[2072]

You cannot use a archive utility on your server like RAR or BZ2 to create your backup? (I use RAR on the FreeBSD server )

[CrimsonCasio]

it actually is archived (tar.gz), but its was still ~480MB

[2072]

What is the ratio ? (real size/archive size)

[CrimsonCasio]

1.4 or so.

638.98/480

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I know it might take a while but I have a little question about hosting: do you support things like PWSPHP (a webportal) and PHPBB2 (forums)? Also if it support it will my forum/website have sql errors like on EPS forum? Because I am thinking about re-separating Omnimaga forum from Epic Programming Studios one because it crash too often. Omnimaga need a stable forum. In the meantime I am looking for new hosts for the forums

[CrimsonCasio]

you could use another host, but you probably wont get as good a deal as i give... ive never been able to figgure out why MySQL on my server is a bit unstable, but it seems to be better of late, i havent seen one of those errors this month.

but the answer is yes to all of the above, you can put in a forum but it will be down when EPS is down and vice versa... but like i said, it seems better now.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

So I guess if I implement a PHP website on the server witha SQL database it will crash like the forums? Hmm yeah I guess it's the SQL problems that make the server slow down because most other earthforge websites with no SQL database run very fast (I can open a 200 KB page with 30 animated calc screenshots in less than 10 seconds, which is impossible with most other free web hoster) while the EPS forum are very slow. Right now they are fine but you should have come on them saturday during the morning, during the evening and during sunday morning, it took like 5 minutes to load each page and the_unknown_one had to delete some of my posts that duplicated over 20 times . Do you know if they will fix those problems?

As for SQL errors, I've seen them happening every friday during the evening this month, making the forums unavaliable during 5 PM and 9 PM. From 5 to 7 approximately it said it was unable to connect to the database and between 7 and 9 PM it said that it was running out of avaliable memory. Maybe they could increase the server RAM... uh WAIT they alerady have 3 GB DDR-RAM