Team Hack-a-Day » hackaday http://www.teamhackaday.com The Official Site of the Unofficial Hack-a-Day Folding@Home Team Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:45:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Hack-a-Day.com is dead. Long live Hack-a-Day.com! http://www.teamhackaday.com/2008/09/12/hack-a-daycom-is-dead-long-live-hack-a-daycom/ http://www.teamhackaday.com/2008/09/12/hack-a-daycom-is-dead-long-live-hack-a-daycom/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:58:36 +0000 DrNathan http://www.teamhackaday.com/?p=42 Yes folks Hack-a-Day is back online and it looks like most of the issues have been ironed out.  I’m sure Eliot and Co. are glad to have it up and running once again.

If you need your fix, please go to http://hackaday.com versus http://www.hackaday.com.  Every DNS server I have checked at the time of this posting does not have a standard ‘www’ record for hackaday.com.  If you cannot get to http://hackaday.com, odds are your DNS records are stale.  You can clear your local DNS cache with an ipconfig /flushdns at the command line.  If that does not work, your DNS provider might not have updated records.  In that case, use 4.2.2.2 as your DNS host.

Either way, everyone can calm down now since you can get your Hack-a-Day fix once again!

]]> http://www.teamhackaday.com/2008/09/12/hack-a-daycom-is-dead-long-live-hack-a-daycom/feed/ 0 Hack-a-Day is Down (For Now) http://www.teamhackaday.com/2008/09/10/hack-a-day-is-down-for-now/ http://www.teamhackaday.com/2008/09/10/hack-a-day-is-down-for-now/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:48:06 +0000 DrNathan http://www.teamhackaday.com/?p=41 As you have probably noticed (and who hasn’t?), the Hack-a-Day web site is currently down and has been for a few days.  It seems that initially, DNS issues plagued the site and then they were DDoS’d when the propagation completed.  Now a pending WordPress conversion is underway, which should be completed soon.  Forum moderator snorkle256 got the scoop from Eliot last night:

09/09/2008 21:52:46 ‹eliot› so, we’re moving to WordPress.com VIP hosting (take that Anderson Cooper)
09/09/2008 21:53:03 ‹eliot› and we’re waiting for them to completel the transition
09/09/2008 21:53:38 ‹eliot› The fist downtime was moving from Blogsmith on AOL’s servers to WordPress in our colo
09/09/2008 21:54:19 ‹eliot› once we came back up we were getting DDoS’d from the first day
09/09/2008 21:54:57 ‹eliot› that essentially saturated the 1G connection Sunday night
09/09/2008 21:55:17 ‹eliot› the devs took us down and decided to investigate other options
09/09/2008 21:56:13 ‹eliot› WordPress is not easy to use at our level
09/09/2008 21:58:27 ‹eliot› we decided to go with WordPress.com since this is there software and scaling will be there problem not ours
09/09/2008 21:59:06 ‹eliot› right now we’re just waiting to hear that it’s finalized
09/09/2008 21:59:26 ‹eliot› it should be within the next day; we were expecting today
09/09/2008 22:00:10 ‹eliot› k, I’m back to watching Spider Man cry

In the meantime, why not check out our Forum or Chat Room to satisfy your Hack-a-Day cravings?

Check back here for any subsequent updates.

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