Is POR down?

[stulee]

I can't reach the site and my ads also cant find a destination page if I click on them. Is it just me? Or have I overlooked a scheduled downtime?

[morleymouse]

login and redirects seem fine here?

on AOL using FF

[stulee]

Thanks Dan. Working fine here now too. I hadn't had a problem with any other site this evening. They must have kicked the server or my ISP has taken the table off the cable. Affmeter has just picked up todays stats which it couldn't earlier.

[tbp]

There a big problem as the London Linx center which started at 7.50pm, and its affecting a lot of the net. A lot of ISP's and Hosting traffic flows through there, and it's generating a lot of package loss leaving some sites unreachable, and others with poor performance.

Could be to do with that.

[graeme]

Just to confirm we have had no downtime today, either planned or otherwise. I have been working most of tonight and have not had any problems accessing our systems. If anyone is still having problems please do get in touch. We monitor our systems from external networks in different countries and are alerted 24/7 to problems. The two networks we use are well connected at both Telehouse and TeleCity, your ISP however may have local issues which effects access, although that is out of our hands.

[stulee]

Thanks Graeme, nice to know you're so thorough. I think TBP nailed what the issue was.

[tbp]

Yes, I think the issue is down to Linx Stu.

I`ve had the same, unable to reach some sites, spoken to the hosts and they have confirmed their networks are operating normally, and also alerted me to the Linx issue.

A lot of the UK ISP's route through there, so its having a knock on effect. Unfortunately theres nothing that can be done, it's a case of waiting for it to be fixed.

There do seem to be a few problems remaining, but its a lot better than it was earlier on this evening.