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Offline MrClyfar

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Why is the elitekeyboards.com site down so often?
« on: Fri, 14 December 2012, 05:31:35 »
Hi there.

I have been thinking of purchasing Topre keycaps from elitekeyboards.com in the New Year.

However, my confidence in using their website isn't great by the fact that I notice it's down a lot. This week in particular they have been down for most of it.

Does anyone else notice this? Are they victims of hack attacks, or is this just how they are?

Cheers.
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Offline MissMurd3r84

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Re: Why is the elitekeyboards.com site down so often?
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 14 December 2012, 05:42:58 »
Weird. I've personally only ever seen them down once and that was for like a 5 minute maintenance session.
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Offline MrClyfar

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Re: Why is the elitekeyboards.com site down so often?
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 14 December 2012, 06:52:20 »
I'm, trying their site right now, and all I get is nothing. Even in different browsers, none of them get to the site at all.

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Offline esoomenona

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Re: Why is the elitekeyboards.com site down so often?
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 14 December 2012, 07:18:48 »
They're up for me right now.
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Offline TwistedMentat

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Re: Why is the elitekeyboards.com site down so often?
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 14 December 2012, 07:21:58 »
It's working just fine for me.  Bookmark these sites and use them to determine whether you truly have no access to any given URL:

Down For Everyone Or Just Me?

and

Is it up?

The problem could be with your DNS.  If you can access the site one day, but not the next, that seems to be the most logical conclusion.  I'm certainly no expert, though.  You can use DNS Benchmark to find better ones, or sign up at OpenDNS.
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Offline MissMurd3r84

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Re: Why is the elitekeyboards.com site down so often?
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 14 December 2012, 07:23:58 »
That's extremely strange. The page is loading correctly for me.
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Offline MrClyfar

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Re: Why is the elitekeyboards.com site down so often?
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 14 December 2012, 07:27:29 »
Hmmmm, something very odd is indeed going on here.

Let me check out there "Is it up?" or "Down For Everyone Or Just Me?" links that were mentioned in an above post.

Very odd.
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Offline MrClyfar

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Re: Why is the elitekeyboards.com site down so often?
« Reply #7 on: Fri, 14 December 2012, 07:43:49 »
OK, I can confirm that it's my broadband connection that's at fault.

I can access the site via 3G on my mobile phone, but when I switch to wifi then the site times out on me.

Never seen that before, well weird.

Thanks for your replies.
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Offline dn7sy

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Re: Why is the elitekeyboards.com site down so often?
« Reply #8 on: Fri, 14 December 2012, 11:00:45 »
Weird.  Anything else strangely inaccessible on your wi-fi network?  DNS issues maybe?
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Re: Why is the elitekeyboards.com site down so often?
« Reply #9 on: Sat, 15 December 2012, 00:45:14 »
I have never seen it down.  Also, during the lead-up to the recent CC sale, the site would have been hammered by expectant GH members and other keyboard forum members, and it stayed up.
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Offline MrClyfar

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Re: Why is the elitekeyboards.com site down so often?
« Reply #10 on: Sat, 15 December 2012, 13:21:14 »
@dn7sy - A colleague of mine mentioned that he has one or two sites which is cannot access via his broadband (different supplier to mine) either.

Must be some weird network issue/config or something? No big deal for me, since I can access the site via 3G. But if it gets worse (i.e. more sites becoming unavailable), then I'll have to contact my supplier and complain.
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