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[cre8pc]

One of the unifying traits most of us share here at Cre8asiteforums is our desire to care for each other, our families, our businesses, our planet.

I wanted to show an example of how one of you just represented what we mean by our tagline, "Building Better Web Sites Together, For a Better World". This member did it with her blog.

White Buffalo Inc. To Massacre Last Axis Deer - Shame and Infamy is written by our Miriam of SEO Igloo.

It's incredibly well written. She uses her blog to bring attention to a horrific situation.

Nicely done Miriam.

Edited by Respree, 08 February 2008 - 08:49 PM.

[bragadocchio]

Thank you, Miriam

A very sad tale, but a tale worth telling.

Thank you for sharing this with us, Miriam.

[bwelford]

If only the online concern could be more visible in the offline world. That Target outrage re the insignificance of the blogosphere currently making the rounds is another example. When will the old-style power brokers realize that there are lots of voices out there and if we all get incensed we're a power to be reckoned with.

Edited by bwelford, 29 January 2008 - 01:06 AM.

[lee.n3o]

hmmm Miriam your server seems to be down (Its 6.36am here).. I know first hand that Miriam is an excellent writer, shame I can't read this one though

[AbleReach]

Lee, I'm seeing this two hours later and it seems fine now.

[SEOigloo]

:hugsallround:

My gosh, what a feeling it is to come here after the day I've been having and find this thread. Kim, I'm so touched. I thank you all, so sincerely, for the support. I feel bolstered up and befriended, in the true sense of the word, reading your comments.

Lee - must have been a silly bit of downtime you ran into. Sorry about that. I don't know what it was. The article should be there if you want to try again.

As an update to this, I've spent the day on the phone and on email with the grassroots local group that has been attempting to fight the Park on this issue. They managed to get the local branches of CBS and ABC out there with cameras, helicopters...all kinds of things. The policy of the Park is never to let shootings be captured for the public eye (they know what would happen if they did) so, for one day, the deer were spared because the media was all standing there watching.

This isn't a happy ending, but it was one more day of life to the deer, and that's something.

Again, thank you all for your great kindness in adding your words here for me to read. I'm with Kim on this one; Cre8asite folks care. That's why this is home.
Miriam

[saschaeh]

I only know a little bit of native Americans history. Destruction of culture, creatures and nature is a terrible thing and always saddening. Its unjust to distroy things that take so many many years to come into existence and just illuminated with no respect.

Sorry to hear about this all the best!

Edited by saschaeh, 29 January 2008 - 03:36 AM.

[lee.n3o]

Nope... theres definitely a problem

I can get every other website apart from yours? I am now in my office, on a completely different ISP and still can't get the site... Just get the usual

The server at www.solaswebdesign.net is taking too long to respond.

[yannis]

I am happy for you Miriam and congratulations for what you are doing. If I could just read it. I had the same problem here. I tried very early in the morning and now (about 5 hours later and still cannot get onto it).

Yannis

[JohnMu]

The cre8asite-effect

I was able to read it just fine, it's very touching, Miriam! Things like this are just sad and it's great to see that the web can help make them public. Keep it up, Miriam!

John

[SEOigloo]

Yannis & Lee -
Well, now I'm flipping out. Neither of you can see it, but John can. I'm looking at it right now. What could cause this? Do we have a problem either of you can think of that would cause this? I'm really concerned and not very educated about server issues, I'm afraid. The site did get stumbled and delicioused and reddited, but not much traffic from any of those sources, so I know the server didn't get knocked down. Oh, dear, what could this mean?

Miriam

[lee.n3o]

Maybe a DNS problem with your hosts? I have now tried it on 3 different ISP's over here and the site still doesn't work?

[SEOigloo]

Lee -

Well, I just called the hosting company. They weren't too much help, I'm afraid. They said if you could ping the site, it might show you what is going on. This is what the guy said to do

Start
Run
type in cmd >click okay
it will bring up a doss window
type in tracert solaswebdesign.net
hit enter
it will show you a listing of routers it's 'hopping off of'
if any of those happen to time out, that means an issue going with a connection in between us and you
in which case, there is nothing to do but wait for it to be resolved
you can copy the traceroute out of the dos box
this would tell them where the connection is failing at, but if it's somewhere in between you and us, there's really nothing they can do about it....grr.

Lee...please don't worry about doing all this if it's too much of a hassle. I feel badly about this...like a bad hostess!

Yannis -
The guy took me to page, internettrafficreport.com and showed me that there is some type of a major outage in South Africa, China, India. At this point, I felt really out of my league understanding him. He said that the Internet backbone there is losing packets, causing timeouts.

Guys, I have no idea if this is true or what. It seems pretty weird to me that John, in Switzerland, can get on, but you fellows in your respective countries cannot. I'm very sorry. If anyone can turn this Greek into English for me, I'd be obliged.

Miriam

Edited by SEOigloo, 29 January 2008 - 06:17 AM.

[yannis]

Sorry Miriam

Still cannot get onto the page, but no problems with any other sites. 'Operation Timed Out'. It is quite possible that there might be a problem with DNS servers.


Yannis

[fisicx]

I've run the trace, results below, there is no timeout just a problem loading the page.

Graham

Tracing route to solaswebdesign.net [64.202.163.214]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 7 ms 10 ms 7 ms 10.12.192.1
2 7 ms 7 ms 8 ms 195.188.52.17
3 10 ms 10 ms 9 ms pc-62-30-243-86-bn.blueyonder.co.uk [62.30.243.86]
4 10 ms 9 ms 8 ms 194.117.148.163
5 80 ms 79 ms 84 ms so-0-1-0.mpr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.27.57]
6 158 ms 109 ms 108 ms so-1-0-0.mpr3.iah1.us.above.net [64.125.29.37]
7 134 ms 133 ms 131 ms so-1-1-0.mpr2.phx2.us.above.net [64.125.25.5]
8 159 ms 159 ms 159 ms available.above.net [64.124.147.30]
9 160 ms 160 ms 159 ms ip-208-109-112-137.ip.secureserver.net [208.109.112.137]
10 164 ms 162 ms 161 ms ip-208-109-112-161.ip.secureserver.net [208.109.112.161]
11 159 ms 161 ms 160 ms ip-208-109-112-145.ip.secureserver.net [208.109.112.145]
12 176 ms 171 ms 161 ms ip-208-109-112-181.ip.secureserver.net [208.109.112.181]
13 174 ms 161 ms 161 ms linhost121.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.163.214]
14 161 ms 159 ms 162 ms linhost121.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.163.214]

Trace complete.

[JohnMu]

I probably have a slightly different connection to the server, seeing that my IP comes out to the web somewhere around Mountain View .

There are two neat tools you can use to take a look at situations like this (I think they're from the same people, but not sure):

1. "Just Ping" will ping your server from various locations in the world to test for general network connectivity issues (DNS, server, routing, etc): click (it only shows 100% lost in Shanghai, China, so that shouldn't be a problem for us)

2. "WatchMouse" will download a URL from your site from various locations, giving you the time needed to resolve, connect and download it: click (it shows a timeout from Shanghai, Copenhagen, Madrid and Lille)

It might just be a tempory knot in the cable somewhere ...

John

[EGOL]

Works fine here.... also ran a check from nine cities in North America, Europe and Asia using Alertra.com and all accessed the page successfully.

[saschaeh]

works fine from here in south africa. I have tested on two different ISP's both fine.

[lee.n3o]

Seems like the problem is Europe based.... Still can't access the site?

[rynert]

From England - for me, it's fine