Anyone know why the server is down?

it seems all non-paid-domain IF sites are down. z9, z7, z11, z15. All of it. I think the main server crashed and they're pussyfooting around trying to fix it.

First time in three months I've tried to visit my in-development site and it wouldn't work lol typical. Thanks

Yeah. IF has the great ability to do that. That's why I'm gonna start using SMF and PHPBB3 and whatnot.

Invisionfree had a bit of an emergency, from what I understand. Has anyone else heard this?

Here's what's REALLY weird--the sites are working for some people, but not others. Huh... for instance, I can access z9 but not z11 or z15.

You're right, it is odd. I've been unable to access z9 all day. I just checked again to see if it was up, but for me it just doesn't work. :(

I'm not having problems with z9 or z11. :innocent:

There it goes again... I was able to get onto my z15 board for about a minute before it gave me an error message. But the members in the C-box said they'd been on for almost twenty minutes.

This is a really strange problem, that it's cutting in and out like this for different people. Another person online suggested that IP addresses had something to do with it? I dunno. I just want it fixed. Haha.

Is it still having problems? Because my board is z11 and it's working fine.

It's fine for me now.

Mine's Z9 and it won't get past the first page...

I still can't do anything.

Edit: On Opera or IE!

It works on Firefox if you wanna try that.

I'm having problems as well but im talking to one of my members on aim & she can access one of my forums with no problems.

Me neither. I can see the front page (on Safari only - FF won't even let me view it), but nothign else.

Yup. FF is a no-go, Safari works for me... sorta. I haven't tried IE yet.

I've tried all the browsers I have & none work.
I have Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flock & Safari

I can't much get on any of the servers except for a few seconds here or there before they crash on me and I can't get on. This is bull as far as I see it, I had to go through an entire offline pm system for 3 days and now this.

I agree. It is bull. And the support forum is even down, so there's no way we can even ask what the deal is.

I hope this gets fixed soon. Grrr.

Don't freak out people; IF is doing what they can to deal with the situation. According to this forum there was a fire that affected a lot of servers... I'm not sure if they're affiliated with IF, or if they're using IF's servers or what... But this is the information everyone is pointing to in regards to what's going on.

"Today at approximately 5:45 p.m., a transformer in our H1 data center in Houston caught fire, thus requiring us to take down all generators as instructed by the fire department. All servers are down.

We are working with the fire department, with our facilities staff on site, to assess the situation.

To keep you updated, we will send messages every 15 minutes in Orbit and here in our forum.

We have determined that no servers in the data center have been damaged. Nonetheless, they are down because power is out. Teams across the board are working to take appropriate action.

We will continue to keep you updated."

Another forum I looked at said that "an issue at one of the datacenter buildings has knocked the domain system for IF and zetaboards offline. since your ISP remembers domain info for hours, this outage will not affect all users." Whatever that means lol. :p

It explains why I can access all IF sites, and some of my friends can only access a few.

So basically, what they're saying, is that we're screwed until about 5 PM central?

:p

Maybe you guys are, but my sites are working fine. :p Jk, jk. I wouldn't consider it getting screwed - none of the data is lost. If people want to get pissed about it and stuff, then sure, I suppose they have the right... But I'm just thankful the damage wasn't more widespread, and that we didn't have another Server 1 moment, you know?

EDITS~ I'm not saying you're getting pissed off, TwilightDawn - just for clarification. Because you don't sound pissed or anything. :p Just speaking in generalities.

:p I only started doing this last november, but I heard about the server 1 incident. Just glad it's not that. Then I could have a solid reason to stick with SMF and PHPBB3 (Which I think I might do anyways because IF loves messing up. xD)

All things considered, IF is still a reliable server, at least to me. They experience some lags and down time, but all in all, it's pretty rare that it's more than a mere inconvenience. I can't speak for SMF or PHPBB3, since I've never tried them, but I'm sure they have their own occasional problems as well. And I think there are more users/more servers on IF, thus more of a chance for things to go wrong.

The same thing happened on GreatestJournal and InsaneJournal. GJ went down the toilet because the admin couldn't take care of it and there were too many people making journals for the server to handle... It really sucked because he was literally telling us to go make journals on InsaneJournal since he didn't care about GJ anymore. Ever since then, I've been much more openminded towards server downtimes. XDD I've experienced the worst of it and IF is nowhere near that level (...yet? LOL).

EDIT~ Oh, and it's the fact that IF is also still a free service. If I was paying for this crap, I'd be pissed, LOL.

Yeah. Definantly yet. Especially with people still using If and neglecting ZB. So once it's an equal flow, all servers that Invision owns will be screwed. And there's also IPB on the side. So....hosting your own forums makes more sense, statistically, they would have much less downtime. With a very not well known host.

I can't access z11, z15 or z9 x.x
I could access z9 and z15 earlier, but now I can't. It's quite odd. Hopefully I will be able to later.

I'm on one Z6 board and it keeps flicking on and off. Using Internet Explorer it won't let me see the site at all anymore [it did earlier very briefly] but Firefoz lets me on for short seconds at a time before crashing again for a while.

Luckily i just managed to squeeze a post i had already typed up on and posted it it the few seconds. Go me xD!

Also - one of my friends has the link to this site where you can see which Invision Free servers are up and which ones are down. I don't have the link on this compy though =[

Argh, now I can't get on z4, where my site is on. Darn.

Ashaaa =] -- here's the site: http://tachyondecay.net/php/bin/serverstatus.php

TwilightDawn -- I don't think InvisionFree is destined for failure... There may theoretically be less downtime and problems in lesser-known servers, but the lesser known the less advanced their technology is. Again, theoretically. IF provides a lot of services that other forum services don't have, or if they do, they only give it to paid accounts. That just makes sense; it's like that with nearly every product/service. ZetaBoards is still pretty new, so they don't expect everyone to go running to it. Right now it seems it's more like an option, not a necessity - for us or them.

thank you Sunday <3

Buut XD That site says Z6 is up, however it isn't working for me. Actually - it says all of the IF boards are up..

It might just mean the servers are online, not that they're showing up. Because they are working for some people.

Z9 and z14 have been working for me all day so far. Luckily, my own board is on z14. Must be karma, considering z14 used to be down all the freakin time last year or so ;D But I do hope it gets fixed asap, it's rather irritating.

I still wanna know why the purchased URL sites are still up. And not the free ones.

I think it might be the type of internet you have. Fire Fox, Internet Explore, Safari, ect. I know Fire Fox works.

I've checked on every browser on God's green earth except Safari. And it doesn't work.

I haven't been able to get onto z6 or z14 all day, but with that said, I have a friend who was able to get on when I couldn't. Its kind of irritating but w/e

I can't access any, I just managed to get on here. But I have friend from the UK who is moving about out site with no trouble.

I think I deals with your ISP. Which means, like always, Verizon is being faggy.

I can't access here from the Main Link, but I can access it through View profile. Which I found very strange

I have Verizon as well.