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Starting at approximately 1200 GMT / UTC on Monday, March 20th 2006 the data center where the Joomla server is located began to experience connectivity problems. This issue lasted for around 30 minutes and has now been resolved. The issue was a data center wide incident and affected several hosting providers and was not specific to the Joomla server.

Thank you for your understanding

- Chris

In the past few weeks the downtime of the site is too much I think. Currently I had no connection for about 1 hour

Please see: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,47968.0.html

There have been no problems at all with the server the past week or so - it has been totally stable. Unfortunately, nobody can stop issues like connectivity problems from occurring.

Strange, I had no problems in accessing the forge

The forge is hosted in a totally different data center, that's why

It is the same as when the forge has been down before the forums etc. have all been up. As I noted in the other thread this issue was not specific to the Joomla server which has not been down, but was a data center wide connectivity issue affecting several hosting providers and a few thousand servers.

I agree, but generally this doesn't solves the problem in accessing the web site and the subdomains like the help, forums, extensions.

ivo.apostolov wrote:I agree, but generally this doesn't solves the problem in accessing the web site and the subdomains like the help, forums, extensions.

There is geographically redundant DNS setup for the joomla.org domain so although the Joomla server was not reachable the Forge was still up. This is why we have clustered DNS in place, so that if the Joomla server is down then the Forge will still be up and running. Like I said, this was a simple connectivity issue at the data center which has now been resolved. There was no problem with the server itself.

Thank you for your understanding

I understood that. The problem is not in the server but the connectivity, which doesn't solves the situation, but as I also understand this is out of your control.

Feel free to close the thread

Ahh
I thougt it was my connection at first
thanks for clearing it up Chris 

Ahhh, the sharing of information.... something my host sorely lacks.

Thanks

Mod note: threads merged.