Fly Navy said:
Official: Airwarriors is one of the most unreliable sites on the internet. Time to fire somebody.
If that is what you think, then I could easily delete your account to free up server memory.
Food for thought as Steve mentioned:
- site has been running well for 5 years
- I have moved servers and hosting providers as we have expanded
- gone from a few users to almost 9000 (4000 active within last 90 days)
- online sessions average between 40-145
- close to a million page views a month
- limited and non-abtrusive ads
For something I don't even break even on, and that I do as a hobby and to help others out, I personally think this site is a success. From the help of another user here who owns a high end server and business that he gave space for airwarriors to run the site on, you guys and gals get a place to post your questions. I do my best to inform ppl when I take the site down for maintenance or upgrades, and yet I get posts like this. Many factors on the net affect whether a site is accessible, network loading, your ISP, DNS servers updating, malicious server attacks (yes, those have happened), and internet backbone overloading. This is not CNN or Yahoo, I don't have multiple servers.
In response to the original question, I do not know "why" the site was inaccessible for 22 hours, I could still FTP and access my airwarriors email, so I am in a bit of lurch without talking to my friend who owns the server (currently at the pointy end of the spear).
Final thought, now, if I am in Japan, and can access the site fine (over 60 "hops" to get to me), then the rest of you need to look at your service providers or your computers.
End rant, and back to work....
John
