Forum maintenance - downtime notice

[satyagupta]

Anwar bhai I have not got any notification mails from RCI since morning.. I have received a PM, talking on threads but there was no mail about any of the activity. Thought that it might be related to the server transition..

[vinay]

Yup, not receiving notifications. Probably Anwar also did not get notification after we posted it here 

[anwar]

Investigating...

[vinay]

Got it now

[anwar]

Yep, fixed. 

[vinay]

You solve the issues pretty fast sirji. Looks like you have become an expert in trouble shooting!

[anwar]

Seems like the hosting company messed up our name server for a little while, and RCI may have been unavailable (or pointing to the old server) for some time. 

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[ebinmoothedam]

Yup, I saw the parallels control panel yesterday and wondered what has happened. But the site was back with in few minutes.

[VC]

Yes it had me worried last night as I just couldn't log in at all. A boating forum based out of the UK had a meltdown last March. It is limping back to normalcy, however, much data has been lost. Feared something similar.

Good to be back, however, even now the RCI logo stands replaced on the tabs by 2 parallel red lines.

[anwar]

Ctrl-F5 should help.

[VC]

Did it just happen again??

[anwar]

It is all DNS caching... no changes on the server side since 8am IST.  Should settle down soon.

[saahil]

during the down time i dont know why this happens but when i type rcindia.org then
a website known as "default parallel help desk" opens up and they start selling their plans for mac and windows errrrrrr its so irritating

[manojswizera]

i was unable to open the site.... Some parallel msg

[anwar]

Sorry about the downtime today... someone messed up on the hosting side.

[prateek13]

Good , it works!

[Rahulvyas]

I was waiting for it to work. Good now.

[anwar]

The forum will be going down for maintenance in 5 minutes. Down time should be less than 30 minutes, if all goes well.