Author Topic: Unable to connect to forum (Read 16822 times)

Trevor Ellis · « **Reply #50 on:** January 27, 2011, 09:29:02 AM »

OK - copy George. As it happened, I'd been on the forum earlier using Firefox so I got an up to date page. Ah well - a solution too good to be true. The mystery continues.

Best regards,

Trevor

ideasguy · « **Reply #51 on:** January 27, 2011, 08:39:59 PM »

Not so much of a mystery, Trevor - The problem is with my host.
I havent a clue why it has gone like this recently, but they should be able to offer a reason and better still, a fix.

ideasguy · « **Reply #52 on:** January 27, 2011, 08:44:16 PM »

...and it happened again just as I posted a message

Lyn and Malcolm · « **Reply #53 on:** January 28, 2011, 10:11:11 PM »

And again tonight at 10.05pm after typing a complicated query about IGpro.

Guess what I didn't copy it before posting it

Will have another go over the weekend, and hopefully remember to copy it first,or write it in Word then post on the forum.

Malcolm

Ps this one was ok

and I had copied it just in case.

Lyn and Malcolm · « **Reply #54 on:** February 03, 2011, 07:14:47 PM »

Down again for about 2 minutes at 7.10pm tonight.

Do you still want these reports George.

Malcolm

ideasguy · « **Reply #55 on:** February 03, 2011, 07:26:34 PM »

Yes please.
I emailed my feelings last night, mentioning the testing which goes on here. No reply as yet.

Lyn and Malcolm · « **Reply #56 on:** February 03, 2011, 09:19:06 PM »

Could not gain access at 9.10pm, internet connection working ok as could access other sites.
Managed to do a Ping test to www.flowergenie.co.uk from here http://www.selfseo.com/ping_test.php and www.flowergenie was reported to be ONLINE

Quickly tried to connect to the forum from favourites bar and couldn't get access for about 10 seconds then the forum came up.

Doesn't really make sense does it?

Will try again next time

Malcolm

Lyn and Malcolm · « **Reply #57 on:** February 03, 2011, 09:39:34 PM »

I know very little about web servers, but if you Ping www.flowergenie.co.uk and get an online result, I presume that just means the server is there and connected, it doesn't test the servers ability to connect to your pages which are in the software in the server.

Have you any thoughts George.

Malcolm

Lyn and Malcolm · « **Reply #58 on:** February 03, 2011, 09:51:30 PM »

Eric Hardy reported on the 11th Jan "Still happening George, I'm afraid. I got "Invalid URL. Unable to connect" again this morning"

Again could this mean the connection to www.flowergenie.co.uk was ok, but not to the full url of the forum.

Has anyone reported problems with other pages on the www.flowergenie.co.uk server ?

Malcolm

ideasguy · « **Reply #59 on:** February 03, 2011, 11:17:38 PM »

Thanks for your suggestion, Malcolm.
Unfortunately, when the Unable to connect error occurs, the home page:
http:\\www.flowergenie.co.uk
gives the same error

ideasguy · « **Reply #60 on:** March 01, 2011, 02:01:47 PM »

Received this email from my provider today:

Quote

Please be advised that the issue with your domain has been resolved. Your domain flowergenie.co.uk appears to be displaying correctly

If anyone finds the problem still occuring, please reply to let me know.

NightHawk · « **Reply #61 on:** March 01, 2011, 04:16:29 PM »

I haven't noticed any problems since 23 January.

Did they offer you any explanation as to what the problem was George? They must have detected one to say it's been fixed

Laurie.

ideasguy · « **Reply #62 on:** March 01, 2011, 07:34:23 PM »

No explanation Laurie, and thanks for that info. I havent had any problems myself recently.
A close watch by our members would be much appreciated.

ideasguy · « **Reply #63 on:** March 10, 2011, 12:06:11 AM »

I havent noticed any problems since my last posting. Anyone else?

Eric Hardy · « **Reply #64 on:** March 10, 2011, 07:09:43 AM »

Fine to date, George - fingers crossed. I have it as a tab on my Mozilla Firefox so I connect to the forum every time I open Firefox. This means I would notice any time it failed to connect.

Palustris · « **Reply #65 on:** March 10, 2011, 10:16:00 AM »

Had no trouble either.

ideasguy · « **Reply #66 on:** March 10, 2011, 10:26:21 AM »

Thanks Eric and Eric

They do indeed seem to have fixed it.
A nice email to Easily is in order to show my appreciation!

roiphil · « **Reply #67 on:** March 10, 2011, 10:51:05 AM »

its been good so far my end aswell

Palustris · « **Reply #68 on:** May 14, 2011, 10:48:22 AM »

Had the same old trouble all yesterday.

ideasguy · « **Reply #69 on:** May 14, 2011, 05:15:28 PM »

A different problem - I ran out of bandwidth. I should have taken action to a warning issued by Easily by email in midweek

When that happens, your website goes offline.

Had to make a payment and in a few hours normal services were resumed.

Palustris · « **Reply #70 on:** May 14, 2011, 05:43:36 PM »

Tut tut! Watch out for your TV Licence reminder then.

ideasguy · « **Reply #71 on:** May 15, 2011, 11:29:53 AM »

It would have taken longer for me to notice if the TV was "off-line"

The main user would have something to say though

Palustris · « **Reply #72 on:** May 15, 2011, 12:46:32 PM »

If you need more Bandwidth am I ok to do another set of show plants? It has taken me a long time to sort them out this time, old age, weariness and gardening keep getting in the way.

ideasguy · « **Reply #73 on:** May 16, 2011, 11:29:50 AM »

Since mid last year, I have a large disc space on ideasforgardens.net hosting, where you up load your photos.
You and all others can upload as many WPG projects as they wish, the more the better.
I pay a fixed annual fee for that.

Band width is used up by visitors to a site or forum. On Flower Genie website (which went off line last week) most of the bandwdth is used up by those who download the Flower Genie software for evaluation. If the allocated bandwidth approaches the limit then I have to purchase more.
Again don't worry about uploading your WPG projects. They are very small in comparison to a Flower Genie download.

Palustris · « **Reply #74 on:** May 16, 2011, 12:30:58 PM »

I'll bet. Ta. As you can see I did one. Only one more for this year as far as Shows are concerned, next Saturday in Southport, hopefully. All the rest of the shows are too far away for us to go to.

Author Topic: Unable to connect to forum (Read 16822 times)

NightHawk