• We should now be fully online following an overnight outage. Apologies for any inconvenience, we do not expect there to be any further issues.

Anyone know what happened to Gideontech.com?

DarkRipper

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Well, I'm bummed. I wanted to know who won the C2 and Gorb he was giving away, plus, I enjoyed the forum there.

DR
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Chooie

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Atomic Rhino, the network that hosts Gideon Tech, is having some unknown problems at this time. I can't get my gideontech email (even though it goes through mail.atomicrhino.com, and not gideontech.com), the IRC server is down, and so is the webside. I haven't heard from GideonX yet, and the only contact information is his @gideontech.com email address. I'll PM him and see if he knows what's going on.

-Chooie
 

helloedchen

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hey guys...just got an email from ARN...seems that there was a security problem with the server so it went down. The admin has told me that it should be back up within a day or so. Cross your fingers, or else we're going to have to move to another host :(
 

Russ

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I hate to say this, but if your site has already been down for a few days, and all you can get is, "should be back up within a day or so", it IS time to get a new host. It is completely inexcusable for a mission critical system to be down that long. A day maybe, but that's it.

Russ, NCNE
 

Russ

Lifer
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GideonX,

These are the two hosts that I use:

Web2010

DIDS

The first I have been with for about 3 years and I can count on one hand the total number of hours of downtime. They are probably the single best site hosting company in the world, but they aren't the cheapest. I have two sites with them.

The second I've been with since November last year. They had some growing pains earlier this year that caused a few problems but, even then, I never saw an outage last more than about half a day. Things have been smooth since. They are less expensive than the first and have a variety of packages. I have two sites with them.

I also have a site with US West, but that's part of my Office Works package.

Russ, NCNE
 

helloedchen

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Russ - thanks for the info! i'll look into them.

Darkripper - i can't check my mail cuz the server is down...so all the entries on on there :( I'll choose one as soon as it comes back up.
 

RaDragon

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It's nice to read about people's concerns on a growing site like GideonTech...(I was beginning to worry about it, myself).

Hope we see GideonTech back online, soon!