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[Kiyouta]

Because... that would cost more and I don't want to donate! ;)

[Gobalopper]

You can read all about it here, its their blog:

http://blog.dreamhost.com/

[Dunenewt]

Random piece of information, dune2k.com is the 533,097th most visited site on the web.

[Dragoon Knight]

Hey, that's not bad when you consider the amount of sites out there. :P

[erjin999]

Hey, you want to back that up with some site urls or something ? I would love to know how they can tell that kind of stuff...

[Kiyouta]

Well I think I know what the No. 1 site would be...

MSN.com - seeing that Microsoft default every installation of Windows to use it as a home page. But thats for a different thread... :P

[Andrew]

A9

Jesse's contact info is there too, thank god it's not the california info.

Nice suburb.

[Dunenewt]

Yahoo.com is 1st, Msn.com is 2nd, Google.com is 3rd.

[Gobalopper]

That is actually my parents house and phone number. I've been living in Edmonton for over a year now.

[Mahdi]

Not the same place though.  He keeps moving.

Almost as if he suspects a stalker....

[Andrew]

Davo?

Still on the hunt for the yeti?

[Andrew]

Is the database corrupt?

In the iGod thread, the avatars are screwed up. Dantes and vidi have top part of Gobs avatar.

Seems to be happening in a lot of threads now with different users.

[Andrew]

In the FAQ, the smiley :-[ does not show up for me. Maybe it's adblocked, but I cant tell as adblock doesn't seem to show whats blocked/blockable anymore for me when I click on the adblock at bottom right of browser.

[erjin999]

I dont got Adblock, but its not there for me either. I am also using FF, 1.0.7. Wonder if it happens with IE...

Seems to be in IE too, although my Ie is buggered, so its not a 100% thing..

[erjin999]

Someone please tell me you are having problems with this site loading.

I have to click reload many times to get pages to load. Other sites dont seem to have any problems, so I guess it is this site...anyone ?

[Andrew]

I havn't noticed this specific to fed2k. Seems to run fine most of the time for me.

[gryphon]

Someone please tell me you are having problems with this site loading.

I have to click reload many times to get pages to load. Other sites dont seem to have any problems, so I guess it is this site...anyone ?

Level3 has been down earlier today. As you are in the UK and the Dune2k servers are the US I bet you use one or more Level3 fiber lines. ;)

Don't know if that was it although if you don't have problems anymore it could be. :)

[erjin999]

Probably, I have had problems for probably just over a day, maybe two... but now it seems fine, I have amade about 2-3 posts, and normally (if you can call it normal after only happening for 2 odd days) it wouldnt even let me open the site up.

Whats this levels you talking about Gryp ? DNS ?

[gryphon]

Level3 is a Tier 1 ISP. Meaning they own parts of the internet backbone. (verry small, short and simple explenation). Most data from The Netherlands to the US is routed over Level3 fiber networks from Amsterdam to LA.

They have some nice pictures / diagrams on the site.

http://www.level3.com/

:)

[erjin999]

Well, I dont know about the issues they have been having, but the site is still intermittently slow as heck for me. Maybe my ISP is messing around. I noticed its happeneing mostly on the post back of new posts...

[Davidu]

The HIDE tag doesen't hide the smilies. Maybe someone posted that already but it never hurts to say it again.

[hide] :) some hidden text  ;D [/hide]

[Gobalopper]

You can check http://status.dreamhost.com/ to see if there have been any major problems with our host.

And the hide tag was meant to hide text... although I suppose it could also hide images.

[MrFlibble]

If you highligt smileys, they appear distorted, what, to my point, is the reason why smileys aren't hidden. Anyway, no one will guess the contents of a hidden text just by the smileys alone, right?

BTW, I've never used smileys in hidden parts of my posts. Well, I rarely use smileys at all...

[erjin999]

Work around, use the text versions :-) ;-)

[Gobalopper]

Forum has been upgraded, we were having some queries taking a long time so this might help.