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retrosportsgamer wrote:No one could access the site until earlier this morning - it was down across the board for a couple of days.

and it wasn't a site problem - it was a host problem. We were far from the only site affected by the outage.

Right, and there were no new posts from 4:00 AM on Sunday through 4 AM (ish) today CRT.

May I suggest a new host?

Nor could I. Seems there would be a lot of folks eager to share their Holiday experiences and loot. The timing of this outage is rather unfortunate.

Racket also posted about it on his twitter linking to the hosting company's status blog.

Shortly before the outage I had a "Most expensive games you might actually own" article pop up on Yahoo. It was a direct ripoff from this site, although it did reference the site...so maybe that had something to do with it?

Either way, it is a hard pill to swallow from a user perspective. The site operates far less reliably than I can recall since joining. I'm sure it doesn't generate the kind of revenue it did back then either, but it can't really grow if the extra traffic knocks it offline for several days. Imagine the experience from potential new members who may have been trying to come check the site out from the aforementioned article.

TSTR wrote:May I suggest a new host?

Do you have recommendations?

racketboy wrote:

TSTR wrote:May I suggest a new host?

Do you have recommendations?

I wish I could be of more help. My experience in that area is quite limited.

jp1 wrote:Shortly before the outage I had a "Most expensive games you might actually own" article pop up on Yahoo. It was a direct ripoff from this site, although it did reference the site...so maybe that had something to do with it?

Either way, it is a hard pill to swallow from a user perspective. The site operates far less reliably than I can recall since joining. I'm sure it doesn't generate the kind of revenue it did back then either, but it can't really grow if the extra traffic knocks it offline for several days. Imagine the experience from potential new members who may have been trying to come check the site out from the aforementioned article.

It wasn't a traffic issue. According to the webpage of our host it sounded like they lost a major cluster, knocking a bunch of sites offline, and it took them days to get it back up. If it was just a traffic surge it wouldn't have taken so long to recover.

Bros, what the deal with the auction deadlines?