Oh dear! Has the NBF gone belly up again or is it just me?!

[MauriceMynah]

Rather as the title says really, Does anyone have any info?

[windmill]

I tried as well same thing.Getting to be getting to be quite regular!

[MauriceMynah]

This is starting to look like a cyber attack as the .org seems to be down as well

[Guest]

This is starting to look like a cyber attack as the .org seems to be down as well

 

I doubt it.  

 

The error message from the NBF is a Jrun connector on the server, so it looks like maybe hardware related again.

[RayandCarole]

Its back up

[MauriceMynah]

They're both back up. Thanks for that bit of info Strow, next time I panic I'll try to remember to include any error messages displayed.

[ranworthbreeze]

Thank you all for the information, please keep us posted so we can pass on any information to NBF members if there is any other problems.

 

Regards

Alan

[Guest]

Why would that imply a hardware fault?

 

"Imply" being the significant word there. True, it could be software related instead, but usually Richard has reported the jrun errors back as hardware failures like disc drives etc.

 

I would think that a cyber attack would result in graffiti or a complete server failure, rather than a code failure message.

 

The URL was resolving ok to the address thoughout the downtime.

[SPEEDTRIPLE]

And in laymans terms?.

[Guest]

And in laymans terms?.

 

A hacking attack would usually either blow the whole site away completely including the initial home page, resulting in a "site not found" message,

 

or, more commonly,

 

leave the site running, but full of rubbish messages, "graffiti".

 

Whereas the "Jrun" error message shows that the website is able to respond to the web browser request, but the server can't process or get the data requested.

[Guest]

Down again, so the rapid intermittency pretty much rules out hacking.

 

It seems to normally reboot several times a day anyway, so it may have frozen during one of those.

[ranworthbreeze]

Hi Strowager,

Yes same for me when trying to look at the site.

Regards

Alan

[Oddfellow]

Ho hum. The problems with NBF will keep occuring whilst the existing and increasingly unsupported  technology is retained. It should come as no surprise when it falls over.

[Boaters]

Still down at 12.30 ,but Richard would be busy working today I would guess.

[andyg]

Oh dear it appears to be down again for some reason !!!

[Hylander]

Back again

[reedham]

Well the site does run on a Windows 2000 server.......I'm not surprised it struggles a bit in 2013!

[Matt]

And gone again this morning. Bad times.

[Guest]

Well the site does run on a Windows 2000 server.......I'm not surprised it struggles a bit in 2013!

 

The root of the problem is unlikely to be the operating system of the webserver, or even the coldfusion language.

 

It's much more likely to be the difficulty of maintaining the standalone locally based hardware.

 

Almost all non-corporate websites are hosted commercially  by large hosting companies with banks of servers running in air conditioned buildings. They also have much faster, more direct connection to the spine of the Internet, enabling a much higher bandwidth for concurrent connections than a single digital telephone line.

[Hylander]

Give it a few weeks and there will be no need for air conditioning.       

[ranworthbreeze]

Sorry to report NBF is still down.

Richard if you see this message and wish to give NBF members a message please feel free to do so.

Regards

Alan

[Soundings]

Still down

[Hylander]

Back up.

[Mirage]

Down again now

[Oddfellow]

All this reporting on its status is a bit like the Okey Cokey.

 

It seems truly remarkable that the most popular forum is the most flakey. I know it costs money to keep these things going and the more popular it is, the more it might cost, but surely it's time to revamp this old dog that is the NBF and drag it kicking and screaming into to the realms of technology that can be easily and inexpensively hosted in a server farm rather than screaming away in pain in a bedroom at the end of a ADSL line. The running costs will surely plumet which might mean that Richard's reported deficit would reduce....