Beer Advocate

[steveh]

Anyone tried to log on today (07.19.06)? Been trying all morning and can't make a connection.

S.

[surfadelic23]

Not just you. I'm not getting in either...

[fretlessman71]

Maybe they forgot to pay their bills....?

[Richard English]

Maybe it's the might of Dudweiser who've launched a "denial of service" attack :-) I can't get into the OBBD either :-(

[HogieWan]

There was a post by Todd the other day about the site going in and out due to server load. Maybe the server finally hung on all the traffic. They are looking to upgrade, but maybe they'll HAVE to, now.

[chazwicke]

Originally posted by Richard English
Maybe it's the might of Dudweiser who've launched a "denial of service" attack :-) I can't get into the OBBD either :-(

I was able to get into OBBD earlier today.

[jjpm74]

Originally posted by steveh
Anyone tried to log on today (07.19.06)? Been trying all morning and can't make a connection.

S.

It's been hung up all morning and afternoon. I don't know where there servers are, but there were lots of power outages throughout New England last night. That may have something to do with it. The fact that their servers are virtually at critical mass are probably another factor.

[Richard English]

Originally posted by chazwicke
I was able to get into OBBD earlier today.
I know - I have a message that you have responded to one of my postings!

[steveh]

Originally posted by jjpm74
...The fact that their servers are virtually at critical mass are probably another factor.

Hope they get it all worked out soon -- Oop, looks like they're back!

S.

[MeridianFC]

Ah, we should've taken over while they were down.

[steveh]

Originally posted by MeridianFC
Ah, we should've taken over while they were down.

What makes you think we didn't? ;)

S.

[steveh]

Down again?

S.

[dancinwillie]

It was down last night as well Steve. Good to see you over there. I don't really like one over the other, but I use them as resources for different things. I also go to homebrew.com. ANyone else post on these sites or other sites that I don't know about?

[newportstorm]

Originally posted by steveh
Down again?

S.

Server/host problems - they're on the west coast and the Alstrom Bros. that run the site are in Boston. Will be back up sometime today after they hash things out. New servers/host on the horizon? After two crashes in two weeks, I hope so.

Cheers!

[HarkJohnny]

anyone here signed on for the forthcoming BA magazine?

i did

[steveh]

Originally posted by HarkJohnny
anyone here signed on for the forthcoming BA magazine?

I decided to give it a try at the start-up subscription price, see how it goes.

S.

[jjpm74]

Originally posted by dancinwillie
It was down last night as well Steve. Good to see you over there. I don't really like one over the other, but I use them as resources for different things. I also go to homebrew.com. ANyone else post on these sites or other sites that I don't know about?

It went down sometime in the afternoon.

I'm most active on ratebeer.com, here and beeradvocate.com, but also read/post at

http://www.babblebelt.com/
http://www.gotmead.com/index.php
morebeer.com

Originally posted by steveh
I decided to give it a try at the start-up subscription price, see how it goes.

S.

I'm subscribed and looking forward to its release.

[chazwicke]

I've not yet subscribed. I'll wait and see how it turns out before I do. I do have subscriptions to many beer publications though.

[jjpm74]

BA's back up.

[steveh]

In the words of Oddball from Kelly's Heroes, "No it ain't." :(

S.

[jjpm74]

Originally posted by steveh
In the words of Oddball from Kelly's Heroes, "No it ain't." :(

S.

Posted by Todd on BA:

Some of you might have saw something about this on myspace ...

Yes, we went down again ... well the server was reachable by its new IP. Oh ... did I mention we have a new IP? Yeah, we just found out yesterday at 5pm ... after our host switched it on us and access to the site went down. Some form of notice would have been cool ...

On top of this, someone at our host (the same someone that was responsible for our being down for some 19 hours on July 19) screwed-up the DNS A record entry (broke access to us, basically). Fun times, but I was able to contact a beer lover at our host who escalated the issue and got it resolved much faster than anticipated - thanks, John ... maybe we'll see you at O'Brien's!

So ... the word about our new IP is spreading around the internet now. Users will slowly be able to get to the site throughout the day -- some sooner than others depending on how often their ISP flushes their DNS.

We'll also be extending the BeerAdvocate magazine Founding Member deadline to midnight on Aug 3.

Time of a beer ...

Todd

If it's not up for you, your ISP hasn't flushed the DNS yet.

[chazwicke]

Originally posted by steveh
In the words of Oddball from Kelly's Heroes, "No it ain't." :(

S.

My favorite Quote from KH is "Its a piece of junk!!"

I have a buddy who has many of the KH wavs on his wav page. Lemme see if I still have the link....

http://www.brokenrooster.com/wavs/KELLY.HTM

[chazwicke]

OK, OK, I went ahead and subscribed too.

[steveh]

Originally posted by chazwicke
My favorite Quote from KH is "Its a piece of junk!!"

All these negative waves!

S.

Oh yeah, I'm back in JJ.

[Chris St Mary]

I subscribed about 2 weeks ago. Couldn't pass up the price on the chance that after it was out I found it to be worthwhile.
Hope I'm not disappointed.

[HarkJohnny]

Originally posted by Chris St Mary
I subscribed about 2 weeks ago. Couldn't pass up the price on the chance that after it was out I found it to be worthwhile.
Hope I'm not disappointed.

agreed!

and I could get on BA as of this morning, and also just now 1pm DST.

[Insidious Rex]

Originally posted by Chris St Mary
I subscribed about 2 weeks ago. Couldn't pass up the price on the chance that after it was out I found it to be worthwhile.
Hope I'm not disappointed.

First issue is scheduled for fall release is it?

[Chris St Mary]

Sometime in September, If I remember correctly. That was another thing. You had to pay upfront. Had me alittle wary but figured I'd give them a shot anyway.

[jjpm74]

There will be a special issue in the fall, but the subscription itself doesn't start until January 2007.

[newportstorm]

Originally posted by Chris St Mary
Sometime in September, If I remember correctly. That was another thing. You had to pay upfront. Had me alittle wary but figured I'd give them a shot anyway.

Don't you usually pay up front for a magazine subscription? Granted, most that I've subscribed to are established rags that I've bought and read at the news stand first. Most publications also offer a pro-rated refund if you're not happy with it. Not sure if BA offers this, but it's still only $20.

Cheers!

[Chris St Mary]

Yeah, you usually pay up front but they are usually already established and you probably have already looked at a copy before you subscribe. This is kind of a blind trust sort of thing. I like the website o.k. so I figured I'd take the chance.