"Frozen Planet Studios - Website is Offline" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 15 Jun 2016 5:15 p.m. PST |
I'm getting this error: Server not foundFirefox can't find the server at fps14.tripod.com |
| Wintertree | 15 Jun 2016 6:02 p.m. PST |
I don't think Tripod exists anymore. How old is that link? |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 15 Jun 2016 6:30 p.m. PST |
We check all of the manufacturer websites regularly. The URL went bad just today. |
| Wintertree | 15 Jun 2016 7:00 p.m. PST |
I guess I'm just out of touch -- I thought Tripod got merged into something else and ceased to exist years ago. My bad. tripod.com is giving the same error message. Looks like something's seriously wrong on Lycos's end. They own Angelfire, too, I believe? Hmmm … lycos.com is *also* not found. Yep, downforeveryoneorjustme.com reports it as down for them, too. So, looks like Lycos is hosed…. Ah, I checked their Facebook page and found this: ---------- We are experiencing technical difficulties due to an equipment failure. Engineers are currently assessing the situation and we will report back when it is fixed, or when we have more information. ---------- Major technical difficulties, it would appear. Possibly of the kind that involve smoke. |
| Wintertree | 16 Jun 2016 8:27 a.m. PST |
Last night (and hours after the start of the outage), Lycos support posted this on their Facebook page: We are working on upgrading your service. Will be back in a few hours. 12 hours later, they're still down, along with the various services they own like Tripod and Angelfire. A day-long unannounced outage "upgrading your service"? At this point I'm thinking less smoke and more Russians. This is not good for small businesses (aka most minis companies) who are dependent on their host for everything from their website to email. Especially the part where Lycos is lying about it … "upgrading your service" my aunt Fannie, either they've been hacked or their data center is actually on fire, and either way, it's already way past "a few hours." |
| Wintertree | 16 Jun 2016 11:29 a.m. PST |
Update on the Lycos borkage: they've got a page up now at wherever they've redirected lycos.com to, same statement about "We are working on upgrading your service. Will be back in a few hours" that they've been saying on Facebook since last night (changed from the "equipment failure" they announced before that). None of their other sites are up at all, just that one. So whatever's going on, it's pretty extensive and not readily fixable. No media reports like "huge fire at Lycos data center" so it's definitely looking like hostile action. |
| Wintertree | 17 Jun 2016 11:46 p.m. PST |
Lycos finally got their stuff together. Their "few hours" was somewhere in the range of 2 days. FPS is back, and presumably any other Tripod/Angelfire sites. Hopefully they're all looking for other hosting right now. You can buy a site on a reliable host (I'm partial to HostGator myself) for less than what even small companies probably lost during the Lycos outage. I doubt if we'll ever know what really happened, of course, but my vote is for the Russian Mafia. |
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