OU.com is broken.

[broli]

Can anyone please convey the message to Stefan that his website is not behaving correctly. I think he installed some sort of bandwidth cap system which blocks users when the bandwidth gets too high. In the course of two days I managed to access the website for 2 minutes before it gives this:

access forbidden due to too much traffic

Access verboten, weil zuviel Traffic gemacht wurde

The funny thing is I tricked Google Translate to "translate" the website ie so google could rout the website from their server to my pc, in other words a proxy server. It worked for a few minutes and then returned to the above message. Then I tried yahoo's site translator and the exact same thing happened. This led me to the above conclusion the he installed some broken bandwidth system that kicks users out depending on available bandwidth. That or the system was fine and he is under some DDOS attack.

Is anyone experiencing this issue? I emailed him a couple of days ago and still have no response.

[Justalabrat]

It is working fine for me, at 1:26 pm west coast time.

[Iotayodi]

Im there everyday and no problems.

[Cloxxki]

I'm sorry, I must be reading too much over there for the site to grant you access anymore ;-)
Serious, apart from the irritating audio robot welcoming message on the one page I use to track new messages, it's working fine for me.

[jibbguy]

I see that msg now and then; i wait a minute and try again, sometimes just hitting the "Refresh" clears it and i get on. Havn't been kept off for very long yet, except when i get the "database" msg which is a different thing altogether.

[broli]

Yeah it used to be something rare. Now it's constant. Stefan needs a pro site admin handling these things because he obviously has a lot of issues with the forum.

[Cloxxki]

A pro admin might be nice, but (s)he'd eat the overunity prize in a matter of weeks!

[Justalabrat]

Now it looks like ou.com is dead. I get no response what so ever.
As of 11:52 PM west coast time.

[FuzzyTomCat]

Now it looks like ou.com is dead. I get no response what so ever.
As of 11:52 PM west coast time.

Yep .... must have been hacked because it's offline, Stefan is on vacation and the last back-up was a week ago ..... so ..... doesn't look good

Glen

[broli]

Yep .... must have been hacked because it's offline, Stefan is on vacation and the last back-up was a week ago ..... so ..... doesn't look good

Glen

That explains a lot. It's funny he went on vacation with no one around fixing things up if it goes down, I guess he thought his forum isn't that worthy.

[Cherryman]

That site is so often offline or back-upping... I almost think that someone is screening the site and when somebody really posts an intresting thing or working OU solution they go offline to "secure" the idear......

[boguslaw]

Surely something important was said on one of the OU threads and they stopped it for "cleaning"

[boguslaw]

Damn, I said something lately on OU ha ha

[wattsup]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

My first post on this forum but have been registered for quite some time.

Actually, on the outset someone else had my username but he/she never used it so Aaron was nice enough to transfer it to me.

Anyways, I checked whois at Network Solutions and the domain status is OK. Checked the server provider (servage dot net) and it is up and running.

Weird stuff is going on. I am thinking this could have something to do with SM posting on the forum recently but this would be construed as totally pretentious on my part. Which it is. lol

Wow, I see @Erfinder is on the forum. Have not seen him on OU dot com for ages.

[wrtner]

That site is so often offline or back-upping...

I get error code 64 - Host not available.

Stefan's problems are
1. crap sotware
2. no moderation

To download 1k of useful datas, we have to download 200k of
brick rubble. It is no wonder that the host is clogged and
incapable of servicing the need. But he can't see this.
Paul-R