PlanetZ down time

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 6:34 pm

Damn, i'm so happy planetZ is back, it is when it's not there no more you realise you miss it that much...

I hope all is well for you john on your side, i was scared for a moment there... All this info we have here, all this hyper cool community present here on the Z...

Anyway, just to say, i'm very happy planetZ is back

petal · Post by **petal** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:13 pm

Hear Hear!

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 9:58 am

It went slower and slower till slow was nothing. I think it is realy a pitty, that John spend the ekstra money on a supposedly better host, and then he has had so much trouble with it

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 3:14 pm

It's still very slow ?

Kim.

aMo · Post by **aMo** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:30 pm

Well, it's certainly not fast.. :/

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:31 pm

When I wrote my previos message, it was faster than now. Right now it varies quite a bit.

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:45 pm

yep very variable here too... :/

peace

otter · Post by **otter** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 3:41 am

quite slow here ...

[ This Message was edited by: otter on 2003-04-27 04:42 ]

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 5:51 am

same here. Slow and sometimes unavailable...

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[ This Message was edited by: King of Snake on 2003-04-27 06:52 ]

Post by **hubird** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 7:05 am

s-l-o-w-w-w-w-l-y, m-o-s-t-l-y

John Cooper · Post by **John Cooper** » Mon Apr 28, 2003 8:50 pm

believe me, they're driving me absolutely crazy.

the website went down for 2 days without notice or warning. their phones are off the hook and emails to the featureprice.com support addresses all bounce.

the planetz website came back up, but i am still completely disconnected from email--- all emails to planetz.com are bouncing since last thursday. attempting to connect to my usual pop mail server gives "connection refused".

i've still been unable to reach them. i finally found that they have suddenly revised their support system - again without warning (see here: http://www.featureprice.com/support.php ) - so I entered in a new support "ticket" complaining about my email failures, and am awaiting some update...

this may be a fine opportunity to ask --- would anyone with a good server connection like to sponsor planetz on their webhost??? the site uses quite a bit of diskspace (about 2gb now), and a fair amount of bandwidth when people are downloading mp3s, etc... nicolas choukroun has volunteered to host the site from his server before, but i was a bit concerned when he told me he ran it from his house, over a dsl line.... but maybe that would be better than this??? featureprice's throughput-throttling mechanism is absolutely disastrous- as all of you have noticed. perhaps a slow dsl line with no throttling wouldn't be so bad, in comparison.

in the interim, please email me at johnzzz@pacBLOCKSPAMBOTbell.net (and remove the BLOCKSPAMBOT there)

-john

Post by **garyb** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 1:24 am

http://www.lunarpages.com/hosting.html
these guys are real good and reasonable.if several of us ante about $30,(i'll volunteer my part)we could put you with a good,fast host for about a year.........

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 8:08 am

And all this time I thought it was because of John's lack of sleep....

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:27 am

If that is, what it takes, I too will pay 30$ a year for keeping this forum up with a good - and to John less stessfull - host.

Post by **garyb** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:53 am

[ This Message was edited by: garyb on 2003-04-29 13:08 ]

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 12:04 pm

Are you talking about 2 years of reliable hosting with 3GB space, good connections and allowed file-sharing (the devices and mp3s) for only 100-150$?

Isn't that close to being too good to be true (like the current host)?

borg · Post by **borg** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 12:07 pm

i wouldn't mind contributing...
it's nice to come home from work, have a coffee and see what's up. wouldn't want to miss it.
on the other hand... now it takes longer to go through all the new posts

more fun.

Post by **garyb** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 12:08 pm

ya=eah well i can't be responsible for math at this time in the morning...

my bad! go with the first number...

John Cooper · Post by **John Cooper** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 12:08 pm

On 2003-04-29 02:24, garyb wrote:
http://www.lunarpages.com/hosting.html
these guys are real good and reasonable.if several of us ante about $30,(i'll volunteer my part)we could put you with a good,fast host for about a year.........

Unless I go thru and delete a bunch of user files (which is a possibility), the 800mb storage limit is just not enough. And that's $23 per month, not per year!

-John

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 12:14 pm

Oh no John - please do not delete

I think Garyb meant 30$ perr person - talking about us heavy users, who have a life in here

Wasn't it so Garyb?