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Duddy
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 3:43 pm    Post subject: Lack of connection to PGPSW Reply with quote

Anyone else have trouble connecting to PGPSW site on Saturday 23rd evening.
I'm using Firefox and I tried several times it just hung their trying to connect.
No problems with other websites but I've noticed PGPSW website runs very slowly on many occasions recently Sad
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There was an explanation on the PocketGPSWorld Twitter page yesterday lunchtime:
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The website is currently down. We’re just doing some fixy fixy right now. Also means you can’t update CamerAlert at the moment too.

Other people commented here on the site being slow recently.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like we were under a DOS attack yesterday. All seems to be back to normal now though.

As Anita hinted at it's always worth checking our twitter feed for anything like this. http://www.twitter.com/pocketgpsworld - you don't need to sign up or register to see out updates and it's the easiest way to get information broadcast if the site is down.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks MaFt
I was aware of the Twitter feed but not interested in being a twitter twitterer I didn't know I could read the feed without registering.
I know now Very Happy Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HoHo - how do I find the link to twits if the site is so slow I have to give up (which I did)? Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DennisN wrote:
HoHo - how do I find the link to twits if the site is so slow I have to give up (which I did)? Twisted Evil
Bookmark it you Twit(ter) Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 2:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DennisN wrote:
HoHo - how do I find the link to twits if the site is so slow I have to give up (which I did)? Twisted Evil

Try this.

I had never visited Titter until MaFt said that's where to check when the site's slow. I never intend to visit it again, except for the same purpose. I know so little about it that I referred to it as a page, whereas it seems it's a feed. Confused
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 7:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, so having clicked Anita's thingy it showed me something vaguely recognisable but quite incomprehensible (and I don't have a grandchild to hand). Does that mean I too have now visited Titter? It really didn't do anything for me, so in future if I have concerns about site performance, I shall again text MaFt (or now even an expert - Anita). I can't be doing with that Twit stuff.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anita wrote:
Try this.
But that's just another link that won't be there when the pgpsw site is down, which I believe is the point that Dennis was making. Rolling Eyes .
Nah, let's all text MaFt like wot Dennis does Burn In Hell
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

M8TJT wrote:
Anita wrote:
Try this.
But that's just another link that won't be there when the pgpsw site is down, which I believe is the point that Dennis was making. Rolling Eyes

I was assuming that, like me, Dennis would bookmark it. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bookmark a Tit page? Nah, can't afford the pixels for rubbish.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Create a Twitter account and then follow @PocketGPSWorld.

We also post status updates to our Facebook page when we can't post to the site.

It was down for a couple of hours again yesterday evening.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Darren wrote:
Create a Twitter account.
You seem to have missed the point about people not wanting to do this Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Darren wrote:
Create a Twitter account

No thank you.

I made the mistake of creating a Facebook account when PGPSW suggested following them, and have regretted it ever since. Far too much information accessible to people I don't know, even without entering personal information on my account.

People I've only ever contacted via email are suggested as "Friends", and even those I've never contacted online, like my granddaughter's ex-childminder.

So when I have problems accessing the site I'll continue to check the PGPSW Twitter feed without signing up.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's a shame Anita. Unlike Facebook, which I have no love for, Twitter is something very different and you can involve yourself in it as much, or as little, as you like.

You don't have to share any personal information at all if you prefer not to.

Up to you at the end of the day though!
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