The Gang of Five

Important Announcements => Announcements => Topic started by: Mumbling on October 13, 2013, 09:15:53 AM

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Mumbling on October 13, 2013, 09:15:53 AM

Hi guys!

As you have probably noticed the Gang of Five has been inaccessible the past couple of days. We are not sure what is causing this issue. It is sadly out of our reach as admins and is most likely a server failure on invisionfree's end.

We all hope the board will be working fine again as soon as possible.

EDIT:

The problem is the gangoffive.net URL. If you still access the GoF from that URL, please change to http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php (http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php)

You should also adjust this URL in your favorites/bookmarks so that you no longer get the problem with the redirection.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: DarkHououmon on October 13, 2013, 09:41:07 AM

It finally started working again for me. I wonder if the issue was fixed.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: pokeplayer984 on October 13, 2013, 09:47:55 AM

Well, it's working for me, so that's good news here! :)

I'm SO glad this place is back! :D

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Mumbling on October 13, 2013, 09:51:52 AM

It probably is, let's just hope it stays running! :)

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Sleeping-force's-inside on October 13, 2013, 09:59:52 AM

That explains SO much :)

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: bushwacked on October 13, 2013, 10:29:46 AM

Ah good, it wasn't just me then. Seems to be working fine now though.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: The Chronicler on October 13, 2013, 11:18:21 AM

Yeah, I kind of figured it was a problem everyone was having with this site rather than just me, because all of the other sites I frequently visit were working perfectly fine. Thanks for letting us know about this, in case if it continues to happen.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Kor on October 13, 2013, 11:27:17 AM

Glad the site is back up.  I knew it wasn't me since if I have any problems with a site I copy & paste the address into http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ (http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/) & it will tell you if the site is down or if it's just you.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: rhombus on October 13, 2013, 12:20:14 PM

I am glad to see that the forum is back up.  Hopefully whatever issue invisionfree was having is fixed now.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Chiletrek on October 13, 2013, 03:27:42 PM

Hello:
 I am also very glad the page is online again :DD . And that link Kor gave is very useful as I have used it before.

 Let's hope the page will remain online... but very curious it went offline for the 10th anniverssary :blink: .

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Mumbling on October 13, 2013, 04:04:41 PM

I can assure you we had nothing to do with that and it was a very bad timing on their part :/

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Jrd89 on October 13, 2013, 09:58:58 PM

I'm very happy that the GOF is back working once again. I "was" worried that I had an internet connection problem with my laptop, but I learned from my gof skype contacts, that it wasn't only me.  

Nevertheless, :D I'm VERY happy that the GOF is back up!

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Malte279 on October 14, 2013, 04:27:41 AM

Me too. As Iris already said the admins were just as affected by this as any other member. Most likely some kind of server-problem of invisionfree. It happened before, though I believe this was the longest case so far. Anyway, we're back ;)

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Ducky123 on October 14, 2013, 11:05:10 AM

Whew! It was some reaaaally bad timing indeed :bang

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: LBTDiclonius on October 14, 2013, 04:39:06 PM

Glad to see that I wasn't the only one that had this happen to them.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: DarkWolf91 on October 14, 2013, 10:07:07 PM

Wow, I was out of town this weekend, so I didn't even notice :lol
Glad to see the issue was (hopefully) resolved, though! :D

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Nahla on October 16, 2013, 01:05:29 AM

I thought it was my internet connection at first,then I realized that all my other sites were working fine. I was in the middle of reading a fic when it crashed,now I can't find that fic again..darn.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: somerandomfangirl on October 16, 2013, 01:53:33 AM

It's a shame it went down but I had quite a busy weekend anyway so I wasn't affected too much. At least it's back online now and the issue appears to be sorted. :yes

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Littlefoot1616 on October 17, 2013, 02:31:42 PM

I had a chat with a few other members in the Skype Chatroom but I was just as anchored down as anyone else. Server issue happen from time to time and usually it's beyond our control.

Still, good to have the ol' girl up and running again! ;)

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: DarkHououmon on October 21, 2013, 03:45:12 PM

I noticed GOF had went down again. I assume it was due to server issues again. It started working for me just a few minutes ago.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Kor on October 21, 2013, 04:09:04 PM

Glad it's up again.  I wonder if the problem was related to the earlier server problem or if it's a different one.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Troodon on October 21, 2013, 05:20:58 PM

I am so glad that this place is now back up and running again! :D

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: rhombus on October 21, 2013, 06:34:09 PM

I am glad to see that the site is up again.  I hope that whatever the issue was has been resolved.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: The Chronicler on October 21, 2013, 07:58:37 PM

Interestingly, both instances apparently lasted for about 24 hours. Hopefully, this won't happen yet again next week, but at least I can be sure to just wait one day and everything should be fine. (hopefully)

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Ducky123 on October 22, 2013, 02:01:46 AM

Kinda strange that we have these problems now that the GOF had its 10th anniversary...

Glad its working again, anyway.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Malte279 on October 26, 2013, 08:02:37 AM

After yet another downtime (the third within a short time) we figured out that the problem seems to be related to the GOF domain name "thegangoffive.net.
We don't know the exact nature of the problem, but the problem does not exist anymore when rather than using the the domain name we change the setting to the default of http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php (http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php)?. So for the time being we should use that url rather than the original domain name. We are going to continue seeing if we can get the domain name back to work properly.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: rhombus on October 26, 2013, 05:21:24 PM

Quote from: Malte279,Oct 26 2013 on  07:02 AM

After yet another downtime (the third within a short time) we figured out that the problem seems to be related to the GOF domain name "thegangoffive.net.
We don't know the exact nature of the problem, but the problem does not exist anymore when rather than using the the domain name we change the setting to the default of http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php (http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php)?. So for the time being we should use that url rather than the original domain name. We are going to continue seeing if we can get the domain name back to work properly.

Thank you for the update.  It is nice to know that at least we have a better idea of where the problem lies.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: The Chronicler on October 26, 2013, 09:00:37 PM

I've always been using that old default address anyway. It always automatically switches to the new name whenever I type in the old name, so I don't see any problem with this. In fact, I'd even say things have just improved.

Remember this problem (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=12233) I mentioned a few months ago? Well, after a little browsing around, that problem seems to have completely disappeared today. :D  It's been years since I've been able to enjoy this feature. I vote we stick to the old name.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Mumbling on October 27, 2013, 05:33:08 AM

I noticed that too, Chronicler. It may have to do with some files that Malte removed in hope of the GoF working smoothly again. Either way I'm glad it all seems to work again.... Even uploading avatars may work again, anyone want to try?

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Ducky123 on October 27, 2013, 06:55:41 AM

If I had a good drawing atm, I would but I didn't draw anything recently... I'll tell you whether or not it works when I finally start to work on drawings again and upload one as my avatar

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: MurMur on October 27, 2013, 07:48:28 AM

Avatar uploading DOES work. :) I've managed it.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Mumbling on October 27, 2013, 08:29:44 AM

Cool, thanks for letting us know!

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Ducky123 on October 27, 2013, 09:05:56 AM

Whoo! I'm almost glad that these downtimes occured now :lol: Many problems seem to be fixed at once now :yes

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Ducky123 on October 27, 2013, 09:07:11 AM

Whoo! I'm almost glad that these downtimes occured now :lol: Many problems seem to be fixed at once now :yes

EDIT: Double post :bang

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Chiletrek on October 27, 2013, 04:49:34 PM

Hello:
 That is indeed true! Now I can finally know what topics I checked by looking at the changing icons again, that's awesome :DD .

 I hope there will be no more downtimes though, those can be annoying but I am glad the cause seems to have been found. Great work, people! :exactly .

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Petrie on October 30, 2013, 08:37:50 PM

Checked to see if it was an expiration problem and the domain doesn't expire until December 28, 2013.  Not sure why the domain wasn't working properly.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Mumbling on October 31, 2013, 02:49:18 AM

That date is getting closer though, Petrie. Do you think we can get in contact with our domain provider to ask what's going on?

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Kor on October 31, 2013, 09:23:08 PM

I guess Petrie may need to, if he's listed as the owner.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Petrie on October 31, 2013, 09:24:25 PM

But I'm not the owner....Austin is. ;)  He did this for the forum years ago so its really up to him.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Kor on November 01, 2013, 12:47:31 AM

I guess someone may have to ask or remind him.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: ddmkm122 on November 24, 2013, 05:35:24 PM

Quote from: Mumbling,Oct 13 2013 on  08:15 AM

Hi guys!

As you have probably noticed the Gang of Five has been inaccessible the past couple of days. We are not sure what is causing this issue. It is sadly out of our reach as admins and is most likely a server failure on invisionfree's end.

We all hope the board will be working fine again as soon as possible.

InvisionFree's end?  Than, why were other InvisionFree boards and even some ZetaBoards forums working then, then?

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: rhombus on November 24, 2013, 05:38:10 PM

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InvisionFree's end? Than, why were other InvisionFree boards and even some ZetaBoards forums working then, then?

As stated earlier in the topic, it turns out the issue was with the domain of the forum and not invisonfree:

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After yet another downtime (the third within a short time) we figured out that the problem seems to be related to the GOF domain name "thegangoffive.net.
We don't know the exact nature of the problem, but the problem does not exist anymore when rather than using the the domain name we change the setting to the default of http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php (http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php)?. So for the time being we should use that url rather than the original domain name. We are going to continue seeing if we can get the domain name back to work properly.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: ddmkm122 on November 24, 2013, 05:39:17 PM

Quote from: rhombus,Nov 24 2013 on  04:38 PM

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InvisionFree's end? Than, why were other InvisionFree boards and even some ZetaBoards forums working then, then?

As stated earlier in the topic, it turns out the issue was with the domain of the forum and not invisonfree:

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After yet another downtime (the third within a short time) we figured out that the problem seems to be related to the GOF domain name "thegangoffive.net.
We don't know the exact nature of the problem, but the problem does not exist anymore when rather than using the the domain name we change the setting to the default of http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php (http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php)?. So for the time being we should use that url rather than the original domain name. We are going to continue seeing if we can get the domain name back to work properly.

Oh!  Oops!

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: DarkHououmon on January 30, 2014, 11:32:15 AM

I haven't been able to access GOF for a few days now. The gangoffive.net URL doesn't work for me. I had to access this from the z7.invisionfree.com URL. Did anyone else have this problem?

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: pokeplayer984 on January 30, 2014, 11:38:16 AM

Quote from: DarkHououmon,Jan 30 2014 on  09:32 AM

I haven't been able to access GOF for a few days now. The gangoffive.net URL doesn't work for me. I had to access this from the z7.invisionfree.com URL. Did anyone else have this problem?

I have had that problem as well.  I couldn't get back on until I tried the invisionfree address.

I wonder if others are having the same problem.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Mumbling on January 30, 2014, 11:39:26 AM

Please do not use the gangoffive.net url. As we have stated earlier that url is somehow broken and we are not able to fix it. Please use the z7.invisionfree.com url instead. I'll edit the first post to clear this up.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: jansenov on January 30, 2014, 01:37:15 PM

I had this problem as well, and so did other GOF members. Just use the old URL.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Petrie on February 15, 2014, 02:47:31 PM

I have turned off the gangoffive.net URL so only the old invisionfree URL will now work.  This will minimize confusion and problems.

As for it being reinstated and getting it to work, I have nothing to do with that.  This was kindly set up by landbeforetimelover a few years back for us, and he owns the domain.  I haven't seen any response from him on the domain issues so for now its better to cut ties with it and minimize issues on our end here.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Jrd89 on February 15, 2014, 10:42:01 PM

I really had such an easy time just typing "gangoffive.net" into the browser box, all this time. :(  it was so easy to access.

:( Now that it's turned off, this could reduce visitor traffic to the gang of five.. I'd have an easier time remembering "gangoffive.net" than the "z7invision..." long address.

I had known "gangoffive.net" as easy as google, youtube, and deviantart. :(

I already really miss "gangoffive.net" I personally don't like the change.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Ducky123 on February 15, 2014, 10:54:01 PM

I get your point, Jared, but why keeping an address that doesn't work at times? Besides, if somebody is in search for a place to talk about LBT, (s)he'll stumble across the GoF sooner or later anyway. In fact, when I was searching for a LBT forum, this place came up pretty high up on the list (even though I typed the german name of LBT).

I personally always use the bookmark funktion of my browser so the delete of the old link doesn't affect me anyway (I changed the link of the bookmark when the problem first came up a few months ago...)

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Jrd89 on February 15, 2014, 11:50:34 PM

Well, you're right about those past outages the gof has had recently. I'll give you that.

I'm sure I can adapt fine to the "gangoffive.net" being turned off. I'll still be able to log in fine. :) It's just something new that I need to get used to.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Mumbling on February 16, 2014, 05:06:30 AM

It's too bad that Google's main page for LBT forum links to gangoffive.net. I've contacted Austin about this, and he has sadly not reponded to the problem. He has made sure to renew the domain name, so it's still 'ours', but so long it's not working that'll be kind of useless... :(

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Malte279 on February 16, 2014, 05:35:40 AM

Bookmarking the GOF is indeed the easiest solution. My main concern is about new members being possibly unable to access the GOF via google at times.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Kor on February 16, 2014, 09:40:09 PM

That is to bad.  I do hope the situation is resolved soon, if not, oh well.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Ducky123 on April 06, 2014, 05:20:57 PM

Not sure if this fits into this thread...

I just noticed that many links (like in our signatures) don't work anymore since the change of our domain... They have to be replaced in order to work properly.

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Mumbling on April 07, 2014, 02:17:34 AM

It's a good idea to replace them, since the z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive is more reliable. I have, however, turned the domain gangoffive.net back on since it seems to work just fine again.

If anyone is having issues with the gangoffive.net domain, let me know. Remember to keep using z7.invisionfree.com for your own convenience :)

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: Jrd89 on April 07, 2014, 02:55:03 AM

:D Thanks for turning "gangoffive.net" back on, Mumbling. It's much faster and easier for me to visit here now, because it's back to the way i'm used to it being. Thanks. ;)

Title: Gang of Five Downtime
Post by: landbeforetimelover on April 08, 2014, 09:58:02 PM

I'm very sorry guys.  It's been so long since I've been here at GOF that I didn't even notice.  I did pay for another year for the domain and I reconfigured all the settings with GoDaddy and it seems to work now.  But for some reason it isn't perma-linked.  I think the admins changed something on their end after it went down to try to fix the problem and it got messed up.  For example, all the posts/topics/pages have the same URL:

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http://www.gangoffive.net/topic/Gangoffivedowntime