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staff_Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 02:48 AM UTC
Thankfully my request to remove the firewall magically has fixed the issue. The sites are back up and running this morning (PST).

Dodged a bullet on that one.

Cheers,
Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 02:51 AM UTC
Howdy,

I can log on in Safari, but not in Firefox. Getting a default website page.

Brian Riedel
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 02:53 AM UTC
HUZZAHH!!
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 02:59 AM UTC
great job thanks

henk
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 02:59 AM UTC

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Howdy,

I can log on in Safari, but not in Firefox. Getting a default website page.

Brian Riedel



Yes unfortunately that standard CGI page is easy to get cached by the browser. Either clearing your file cache or using direct file paths ( https://armorama.kitmaker.net/index.php ) should work to restore it.

Cheers,
Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 03:05 AM UTC
Been checking every couple of hours or so since yesterday...Glad to know its back online!

What happened? Was it a bug in the firewall?
staff_Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 03:16 AM UTC

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What happened? Was it a bug in the firewall?



According to GoDaddy it was a problem with the server configuration files being corrupt. I don't buy that. I think the tech just didn't know how to get around the firewall or it's settings properly.

I feel so much better now though.

Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 03:42 AM UTC
Way to go Jim! I can appreciate all the time, effort and frustration that you must have gone through for all of us. My sincerest thanks. This also has me seriously wondering about recommending GoDaddy to Web clients.

Thanks again,
Jan
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 03:44 AM UTC
Excellent to see the site back. Hard to believe how lost I've felt without it.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 03:50 AM UTC
Thanks Jim ! I was Jonesin' with out it
cdharwins
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 04:13 AM UTC
Jim,

Thanks for getting the website back up, and thanks for all you do!!

Chris
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 04:13 AM UTC
Thanks for getting it sorted Jim!
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 04:16 AM UTC
THANKS JIM!

I CAN STOP CRYING NOW!

Michael
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 04:30 AM UTC

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Jim,

Thanks for getting the website back up, and thanks for all you do!!

Chris



Absolutely.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 04:40 AM UTC
Thank goodness the site is back up!!!!! I only have 2 days of internet access a week and, unfortunately, when I came home.....NO ARMORAMA!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Now I'm happy again and my wifey pooh can call off the men in the white suits....In the words of that greatest of poets (Cinderella's Tom Kiefer) "You don't know what you got till it's gone". Amen. Thanks for being back up and running.

Jeff
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 04:40 AM UTC
Thanks Jim, was checking every hour or so and am glad it's back up and running. Was suffering from a bit of withdraw.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 04:47 AM UTC
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 04:56 AM UTC
What Frenchy said +1, couldn't have put it better myself. Thank you for all your efforts, Jim!
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 05:00 AM UTC
Didn't even notice until the email came in - I've been so busy recently working away on a review... !



Fingers covered in dissolved styrene, dining room stinks of EMA Plastic Weld, shards of plastic all over the floor!
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 05:15 AM UTC
Thanks Jim for getting the sites back up, you don't know how lost I've felt the last day without the site.

As an ex maintenance engineer in a tier 3 data centre I find it hard to believe that they have no UPS or generator back up for a power loss.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 05:31 AM UTC
Thanks a lot for fixing this nasty bug.
Till now I didn't realize how I could miss the site
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 05:33 AM UTC
Been lost in the land of Internet Darkness (otherwise known as the Markham Moor Services on the A1) for the past three days - did I miss something?

Glad it's all back again!

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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 06:13 AM UTC
I still can't access through armorama.com A friend suggested going in through 50.62.141.30 which brings you to the kitmaker menu.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 06:15 AM UTC
YES!! It's back!Frenchy+2!
And I thought it was something I DID unknowingly the last time I was on.
So on with the PARTY!! on me, barkeep sir!
uhmmmm, is North Korea still with us or did I really bump the red button?
NOT!
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 06:18 AM UTC
Wow! Thanks for the preserverence Jim. I'm sure you were sweating bullits as the hours went by.
I cannot remember a longer outage in all the years I've been coming to Armorama.

C.
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