AV123 Forum not available?

HAL · « **on:** 21 Jan 2007, 03:16 pm »

Just posting that the AV123 Forum at their website is down. The rest of the website is working.
Not sure if anyone else can get to the Forum.

TomS · « **Reply #1 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 03:18 pm »

They've been bombarded by spammers lately. Maybe that has something to do with it. They were also preparing a new version of the whole site. I was at the HEMI GTG in Michigan yesterday and there was no mention of it (MLS was there). Tom

zybar · « **Reply #2 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 03:22 pm »

Quote from: TomS on 21 Jan 2007, 03:18 pm

They've been bombarded by spammers lately. Maybe that has something to do with it. They were also preparing a new version of the whole site. I was at the HEMI GTG in Michigan yesterday and there was no mention of it (MLS was there). Tom

How was the GTG at Pete's place?

I saw the new REF 200 center channel and it is an absolute monster!!!

George

HAL · « **Reply #3 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 03:29 pm »

I was trying to look at the GTG thread to see what happend, starting last evening. That was why I posted, since I had not read a more recent post about a website update.

I am sure they will get it running soon.

TomS · « **Reply #4 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 03:32 pm »

It was a great time - I'm guessing 50+ people. Pete has beautiful home and a really nice pair of custom built rooms (built himself) and all top rate gear. He and Brenda were extra-ordinarily gracious hosts.

The new BMF sub and the new Ref 200 center were KILLER!!!! You can't even believe how big both of them are. I sat next to the BMF (like 2') during the DD demo sequence and I'm certain it knocked a few of my screws loose. I never thought I really needed

a center until I heard this one (I use phantom). Talk about impact. The top mounted upward firing tweeter really works great with the projection screen.

MLS gave away about $10k worth of stuff too. Unfortunately I didn't get picked

but there were some very happy winners.

Tom

wshuff · « **Reply #5 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 04:06 pm »

I can't even access the regular av123 website now.

BradJudy · « **Reply #6 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 05:14 pm »

Yep - unavailable. I'm guessing one of two things - site problems or the big site upgrade they've been talking about for a while. Since they didn't give any warnings about outages, I'm betting on unplanned problems.

Buzz38 · « **Reply #7 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 05:35 pm »

The forum has been getting invaded regularly by porn spammers. Hopefully they are doing what it takes to remedy the problem so we don't have to keep our kids away when viewing the forum. It would be nice to get some more feedback on the GTG, but that's how things go. You can't keep a good crew down.

BradJudy · « **Reply #8 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 07:08 pm »

It looks like the forum is back up, but the regular site isn't. Here's a link to pictures from the Detroit GTG that BRM just posted: http://alhull.com/hemi2007sanctum/index.htm

HAL · « **Reply #9 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 07:29 pm »

Brad,
Thanks for the link.
Looks like they all had fun.

Sean Parque · « **Reply #10 on:** 23 Jan 2007, 07:39 pm »

Our main site and our forum are hosted by different companies but both went down this weekend in unreleated events. The main site DNS expired and the hosting company did not renew it quickly. All fixed.

For the forum, we are moving to a new server and new software. The data center misunderstood our instructions and took the forum offline completely. We had them all killed

Everything should be back up and running now. The new forum will be here soon with the new main web site a bit after that.

Thanks all,

Sean

HAL · « **Reply #11 on:** 15 Feb 2007, 11:58 pm »

The AV123 forum is down. I think they are upgrading the website!

Sean Parque · « **Reply #12 on:** 15 Feb 2007, 11:59 pm »

We are upgrading the forum server and software

3beanlimit · « **Reply #13 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 03:24 pm »

Quote from: Sean Parque on 15 Feb 2007, 11:59 pm

We are upgrading the forum server and software

Wow.....you must be having problems?

BradJudy · « **Reply #14 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 03:53 pm »

It was up and running for a while, but I can't seem to get to it again. I'm sure it will be back up shortly.

konut · « **Reply #15 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 07:29 pm »

Maybe they're using a stenographer to transfer the database.

3beanlimit · « **Reply #16 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 08:05 pm »

Quote from: konut on 17 Feb 2007, 07:29 pm

Maybe they're using a stenographer to transfer the database.

konut, are you back in Washington?

BradJudy · « **Reply #17 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 08:08 pm »

It works here at work, but not at home. It's probably a matter of my ISP needing to expire their DNS cache.

konut · « **Reply #18 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 08:39 pm »

Quote from: 3beanlimit on 17 Feb 2007, 08:05 pm

Quote from: konut on 17 Feb 2007, 07:29 pm
Maybe they're using a stenographer to transfer the database.

konut, are you back in Washington?

Yeah, I'm in Bellingham now.

JoshK · « **Reply #19 on:** 17 Feb 2007, 08:48 pm »

Quote from: konut on 17 Feb 2007, 08:39 pm

Yeah, I'm in Bellingham now.

Cool town! Home town of Death Cab for Cutie. Hop skip a jump from the land of the Canucks.