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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Night Hammer on November 09, 2004, 10:24:57 pm

Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Night Hammer on November 09, 2004, 10:24:57 pm
Every so often when i try to come here it sends me to IGN, then I hit refresh not too much later it works, whats the prblem now?
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Rictor on November 09, 2004, 10:31:54 pm
yup, I noticed it too.
its been on and off in the past few minutes......
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: deep_eyes on November 09, 2004, 10:48:34 pm
just happened to me twice... wow.
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Fury on November 09, 2004, 11:16:04 pm
Lets prepare for the worst... :nervous:
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: ChronoReverse on November 09, 2004, 11:32:44 pm
Just happened to me right now.  For a second I was thinking "Oh noes, not again"
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: deep_eyes on November 09, 2004, 11:50:53 pm
MFG! i tried to post 7 times and it took me to IGN 7 times!
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: StratComm on November 10, 2004, 02:36:03 am
Maybe Gamespy/IGN is getting too many queries to dynamic4 or don't have enough bandwidth allocated to it?  It seems like it's returning no connection to the server and redirecting to that stupid page, because obviously the site is still here and dynamic4 is still up.
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Styxx on November 11, 2004, 02:16:37 pm
It's a problem with redirects on the dynamic servers, apparently. They're looking into it.
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Knight Templar on November 11, 2004, 02:26:34 pm
This is ridiculous.
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Taristin on November 11, 2004, 02:50:06 pm
Seriously. I want my money back...
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Starman01 on November 11, 2004, 04:10:21 pm
O.K, now this is really starting to )($)@** me off. No offend, I  know you guys here can do nothing about it, but what's wrong with gamespy ? Aren't they capable of hosting sites anymore? If not, those network-admins should go back to school or look for a new job for the better of all of us.

Some of our team-members are already discussing to relocate the
developer-forum, which would not be to my liking at all. But on the other hand I see the purpose behind this. We have real problems when we loose our internal, because our communications break, our to-do-list, bug-reports and work-assignments are stored there, so every down-time pauses the project more or less.

O.K., we have a substitute forum, but it is not really a help when we start switching between two forums. :(

Our first 12 months (and the time back I remember in HLP) there
have not been such problems, but in the last half year they appear very often.

How about showing gamespy the finger and move the site ? Would this be possible or is it a cost-problem (does gamespy host for free ? )

I really hope that these problems will finally come to an end :(
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: aldo_14 on November 11, 2004, 05:18:43 pm
I'm pissed off....but, on the other hand, do we actually pay anything to them to even host the site? I don't, that's for sure.  

I don;t think it's going to be intentional on GS/IGNs' part, and if it's a dynamic server problem it'll be affecting and annoying a lot of sites.  I'd hold fire at the mo, give them a few weeks to check it out before considering moving - the worlds not going to collapse if mods get help back a few days, especially not with email, icq, etc as alternate forms of communication.
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: karajorma on November 11, 2004, 05:30:18 pm
Might be worth remembering that every time the servers go down GS/IGN lose revenue. I doubt that they're happy about the situation at all.

As for those talking about moving, that's all well and good if you're willing to pay but for all their faults GS host HLP for free. I love HLP and I'd be willing to stump up some cash to keep it running if we have to but lets not jump the gun and saddle the community with a huge bill to pay just cause of a problem that GS are no doubt trying to solve.

Their stability may have been pretty bad recently but you've had several years of pretty good service for absolutely no expense to you. Try to remember that before you all start whining about how GS is utter ****e and we should move immediately.
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Sandwich on November 11, 2004, 05:48:18 pm
Good points, all. You deserve to know what's going on, so here's where things stand.

Yes, our being here with GS is for free, so we can't really complain about the service, weird as that may be. However, rest assured that we aren't exactly sitting quietly every time something goes wrong, waiting for GS to fix it. ;)

As for relocation, I'd be lying if I said we haven't been looking into various options along those lines over the past few months. Bottom line is it'd probably cost between $10-$20 USD per month for the kind of package we think HLP needs (remember, GS hasn't shared with us any information concerning how much bandwidth usage we consume... plus, if we moved, we'd lose the services of FilePlanet, which would mean that bandwidth would become a much larger problem than you might initially think).

Now, if we did decide to leave GS, that would lift the restriction we currently have on advertisements, allowing us to possibly get some sort of revenue via Google ads or the like. But of course, Google doesn't publically share how much income people can expect to get per click, so we don't know ahead of time how much that would have the potential to bring in.

So that's where things are at at the moment. We're weighing our options, waiting on a few things to happen, etc. For the time being, however, we're stayng with GS.
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Taristin on November 11, 2004, 05:57:51 pm
lol, well if you do get your own hosting, I'll do my part by clicking the banners several times a session. :p
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: IceFire on November 11, 2004, 06:02:16 pm
First time in days that I could get here without the IGN page coming up.

Are IGN and Gamespy buddies now?
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Night Hammer on November 11, 2004, 06:27:14 pm
I think we could come up with 10-20 bucks between all of us
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Bobboau on November 11, 2004, 06:45:46 pm
Kazan has a fairly good hosting service
look at his forum (http://democrats08.com/forum/index.php)
might be a good idea to have an offical backup somewere.
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: TheVirtu on November 11, 2004, 07:04:53 pm
Quote
Originally posted by IceFire
First time in days that I could get here without the IGN page coming up.

Are IGN and Gamespy buddies now?


IGN and Gamespy merged back in Early May, it's the month where everything involving customer support and quality service hit the ground head first and never got back up. :blah:
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Sandwich on November 11, 2004, 07:46:33 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
Kazan has a fairly good hosting service...



Yes, I know. I pointed out 1and1 to him and he liked very much their pricing packages, and AFAIK went with one of their packages for that site.
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Rictor on November 11, 2004, 08:21:55 pm
If HLP did move, could 3dap.com/hlp still point to the new site
, or would GS pull it completely?
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Setekh on November 12, 2004, 03:23:45 am
GS would almost certainly pull it - but we may be able to negotiate a short grace period when the would redirect remain up.
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Sandwich on November 12, 2004, 04:55:48 am
Yeah, but I'm sure we could get a nice short domain.
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Setekh on November 12, 2004, 05:00:32 am
Indeed, and they're quite cheap these days too. I was thinking of keeping 3dap.com/hlp only for the sake of people who don't realise we've moved.
Title: Whats with the flashes to IGN?
Post by: Rictor on November 12, 2004, 06:18:30 am
Yeah, thats what I thought too.