I cant access the website

[Madridi]

Hi,

I have been having trouble accessing this site for the last 2 days. It also happened for a day about 10 days ago. The website never opens.

I tried my connection (wireless and Ethernet), my 3G connection, the wireless at my brothers home, but it is still not working.

I am currently accessing this site through hotspot shield. It seems to me that the country's IP was blocked or something.

I home someone can shed a light on this issue. Thanks!

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Is it still broken? Costello says it should be fixed now, and it's working fine for me. I've also been having problems for the past day or so, along with a bunch of other people.

 

[Madridi]

Yeah it is still not working for me

 

[mashers]

I've been having the same problem over the last few days and assumed it was due to increased traffic during E3.

 

[_Chaz_]

I was having the same problem ever since E3 started. Even after clearing my cache, flushing my dns, clearing all temporary system files, and even testing in a virtual machine I was only ever able to half-load the home page every so often.
I wound up changing my IP and now everything works.

 

[sarkwalvein]

It works like shit for some reason, the weird thing is that if you access it through a proxy, e.g. -link to the page through a proxy-, it works perfectly.

 

[Madridi]

Yeah that's how I am logged in. Hotspot shield is basically a proxy. I hope someone can take a look on it.

Looks like I am not the only one having trouble. I expected to find another thread where people already reported this issue. When I didn't, I assumed it was only me.

 

[migles]

costello fixed this some hours ago. hosting said it was routing issues... but they found the problem and fixed it...

 

[Madridi]

still not working here though

 

[samiam144]

I was having the same problems, even through my phone's data and my school's wifi, but it's working for me now

 

[Madridi]

Let's approach this differently:

Is anyone STILL having problems besides me?

 

[Costello]

I'll forward the information to the hosting company

 

[sarkwalvein]

I was having problems a couple of hours ago at home with my ISP that is O2 (another name for Telefónica - Timofónica - Telefórrica - Piece of Shit communications monopoly wannabe - whatever you want to call it)
I also was having problems a couple of hours ago with my phone ISP that is FONIC (again depends on O2 and read above)
Now I am at work and I don't have problems, I can't test the previous connections.

 

[Madridi]

It is suddenly working now. Did you change anything in the last few minutes @Costello

 

[B-Blue]

I also couldn't access the website in the last 2 days. Seems to be working fine now!

 

[Costello]

glad it's sorted

 

[Bladexdsl]

haven't been able to access all day i thought everyone must be in here raging about the crappy metroid game shown and it broke the server

 

[porkiewpyne]

Glad to be able to access the site again.

 

[the_randomizer]

Wow, so other people were having issues, while others were not, and like the OP, I too could access it nearly instantly via a proxy server. Usually proxies have the opposite effect, they take forever to load. I don't think all the E3-related news helped the site's traffic any.

 

[mashers]

other people were having issues, while others were not

That's consistent with a routing issue, and you're probably right the E3 traffic probably just compounded the problem.