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Topic: This website seemed to be unavailable earlier today

For a while this afternoon, punster.me was not available in several of my browsers.

It's either back now, or never went away.

Please put me out of my misery!

I posted an alert in the classic lounge.

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Re: This website seemed to be unavailable earlier today

I’ve been busy with other things today, Jack, but I see from your thread in the CommunityPlus Lounge that no one else was experiencing the same access problems. I hope it was just a temporary glitch.

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Re: This website seemed to be unavailable earlier today

I suggest we all wait a spell before putting you "out of your misery".  I would truly hate to do so prematurely.

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Re: This website seemed to be unavailable earlier today

Robert The Texan wrote:

I suggest we all wait a spell before putting you "out of your misery".  I would truly hate to do so prematurely.

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Re: This website seemed to be unavailable earlier today

This morning (Thursday, 11 August) I was unable to open this site (Alfred...) via three of the four browsers I could use.

That is, normal browser Opera, others: Firefox, and I think I tried Pesala's favorite Vivaldi. I didn't try Maxthon.

All other sites I tried were OK, just this one was unobtainable.  This was on my Talktalk line.  The router was working OK, as it's little white light was ON and as other sites were coming up well. Accessing the router base showed that I was getting my normal bit rate.
Now - the weird bit -  When I switched to my BT line, I had no trouble at all with this site.

The situation recovered eventually. This may be coincidental with turning off and on my Talktalk router, and restarting the PC.

I did look for router settings with respect to site blocking, but as I said, the other browsers gave the same unobtainability result, so it was common to them all, and the line.  Some weird thing at Talktalk?  I should add that MS had ferformed some updates "overnight"

PS I have two landlines for historic reasons, one BT and one TT.

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Re: This website seemed to be unavailable earlier today

jackneve...

Part of my early morning routine, and I am a morning dude normally up by 0500 CDT, is to log on to various news and financial sites.  This morning most of the sites I hit came up quite nicely, but with three of them the system gave me the old "I can't get there from here.  Try again later." routine. This went on for some time, and then magic happened.  The miscreant sites appeared and gave me the news... good and bad.

I suspect your and my issues were the result of some Internet infrastructure hiccup that disrupted things for a while and then got fixed.  Sometimes I think we expect perfect performance from the miracle of the Net, and that's a stretch on reality.