Hi Rugby-Talkers,
What a frustrating day and a half it was on Monday and Tuesday morning!!
Our Rugby-Talk.com Web Hosts were supposed to automatically renew and extend the DOMAIN REGISTRATION of Rugby-Talk.com… and it slipped between the cup and the lip. I was supposed to check that the renewal took place… and did’nt.
So, Murphey’s Law applied and the DOMAIN NAME officially expired on 2 August 2014, keeping the cached pages live in South Africa till morning somewhere yesterday, Monday 4 August 2014… when it disappeared on us all for a while, saying the web page is not available.
Of course I immediately jumped on the Web Hosts and were all over them, like a rash.
To say that I was livid, is probably the understatement of the century!
Bottom line is the DOMAIN RENEWAL was done, post haste, paid for in US Dollar and within hours the website was live again… in the United States… but nowhere near Africa, of course!
What happens is that DOMAIN PROPAGATION has to take effect all over the world as the NAMESERVER POINTING takes place and now has to take hold all over, with the different world ISP’s refreshing their cache at different intervals. Proper Propagation of a Website Domain often takes as long as 48 Hours, luckily we were fortunate enough to have less than 24 Hours out in the cold dark world.
The Silver Lining, I suppose, is that this happened on a Monday and not later in the week or on a game weekend.
Apologies for the inconvenience and the downtime!
At least Rugby-Talk.com boasts a proud history of great uptime and this little snag was a mere blimp on the radar, very quickly alleviated!
Regards,
Good to see the site back up. Was a bit worried till I mailed GBS. Its funny how over the weekend I can do without the site, but come Monday, I have got to have my fix, and if it goes down, the day just isn’t right.
Superbul
NZ equivalent of the Curry Cup is now called the ITM Cup.
The Ranfurly shield, or “log o’ wood” is still one of the most coveted NZ trophies..
20 @ Blue Bird:
belated congratulations Blue Bird on winning the Bru 
what was your prize? Can I get you to pick my lottery numbers in future please 
@ Blue Bird:
“Of course I immediately jumped on the Web Hosts and were all over them, like a rash.
To say that I was livid, is probably the understatement of the century!”
see I told you GBS would be on the phone shouting at someone
Ah that’s why I couldn’t check it out. It didn’t flop faster than a Blou Bulle’s belly getting up from a Loftus’ seat after all 🙂
i honestly thought i had been banned for vloeking the administrator
31 @ Lion4ever:
So, M-Web also finally woke up… one of the last ISP’s to refresh their cache!!
Yip, this thing is addictive, hey!
34 @ Bullscot:
Hahaha, when I get the Moer in, I really become one very uncomfortable farker to deal with… had them jumping like little soldaatjies there in Texas for us… hehehe
36 @ Charo:
Flok, I am not THAT sensitive… unlike some of your fellow Tjarkies.
Poor dumb Texans regretting double-crossing an Afrikaaner eh 🙂
38 @ mikeybrass:
I don’t so much know if it’s the Afrikaner thingy… I shouted at them in perfect Queens English, something the Americans cannot speak or spell properly anyway!
GBS wrote: ” had them jumping like little soldaatjies there in Texas for us…”
Well, that certainly explains the earthquake yesterday….if a bunch of overweight Americans jump at the same time, it’s sure to cause some tremors on the other side of the world
40 @ nortierd:
Etzakkerly!
Sorry for the quake… hahaha
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