IRC and Mail Servers down

Published on July 4, 2003 By MadIce In WinCustomize News

The IRC and mail servers are down. There is some bad wheather near Livonia. Maybe the two events are connected and let's hope it doesn't ruin their 4th of July party.

That means you might have trouble with IRC (chatting), newsgroups, support, ordering and retrieving your serial numbers.

The guys are probably working on it right now.

We apologize for any invonvenience this may cause.

Comments (Page 1)

Frogboy

on Jul 04, 2003

Yep. Huge storm in Michigan. Wrecked my brand new landscaping too and destroyed my kid's playscape.

Keila

on Jul 04, 2003

FrogBoy please do everything you can to make the best out of the rest of the Holiday.

I hope your homeowners insurance takes care of this for you.

mormegil

on Jul 04, 2003

What will I do without IRC I might have to go outside. Ahhhhh!

DavidK

on Jul 04, 2003

Sorry to hear you're having such severe weather. Bad timing hitting on a national holiday.

Maybe these guys are on to something:
03 July 2003
"In an astonishing announcement on global warming and extreme weather, the World Meteorological Organisation signalled last night that the world's weather is going haywire.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=421166

Larry Kuperman

on Jul 04, 2003

"I see a bad moon arising, I see trouble on the way..."

WOM

on Jul 04, 2003

Withdrawels again. First it was my computer and now it's the servers. >

_Martin_

on Jul 05, 2003

Thanks for the post MadIce. Nice to know it's not my mail server for a change!

Sorry to hear about the weather. Hope it's better today.

Nakor

on Jul 05, 2003

It's been some 20 hours now (10am EST) and they still don't have the power back. There's another line of storms on the way, so this may persist until Sunday if we're unlucky.

Frogboy

on Jul 05, 2003

I don't recommend Livonia Michigan as a city for having a business in. Heck, as bad as it is for the company to have been without power a full day now, imagine if you lived there? Talk about wrecking the 4th of July weekend. And it's quite hot out.

Frogboy lives in Canton with power thankfully.

Melanie Tersigni

on Jul 05, 2003

Is anyone having trouble with the stardock newsgroup....i cant download or receive any message...my other groups are working fine...i hope it isnt the hacking group up to no good thanks

pjpowell

on Jul 05, 2003

Melanie: They have no power. I would imagine any servers (newsgroups is included here) hosted on site are down. Wincustomize is hosted elsewhere and so is still up and running.

GreenReaper

on Jul 05, 2003

Services should now be restored (at least IRC, news and mail are now online).

MadIce

on Jul 05, 2003

Let's hope that the hamster doesn't get tired or that they don't forget to feed it.

KarmaGirl

on Jul 05, 2003

I am camping at Stardock with "Mr. Kubota" the generator. It's just like camping...ut indoors, with running water, a computer and a TV....so it's really not like camping at all. I plan on staying up late and watching scary movies....probably not a good idea since I'm at the office with no lights, but I'm doin' it anyway! Current ETA on power being restored in Livonia- late Sunday evening. (insert sound of KarmaGirl whimpering here....)

_Martin_

on Jul 06, 2003

KarmaGirl:

Thanks for your sacrifice.

oops, maybe I shouldn't have phrased it like that if it's a bit scary!

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