Hacker News Reader

Comment by ColinWright | Hacker News Reader

I feel like I'm missing something - the site/article/page hasn't loaded for me for the last 40 minutes or so, and yet people are upvoting it.

Am I missing something? Is it just me? "Is It Up"[0] says it's up ...

Maybe I'll try via a different IP address.

Edit: The number of upvotes (twelve and counting) shows it's not just me. I've now changed my IP address and it loaded almost instantly.

Jacques - FWIW the IP address that's not working is 92.18.56.74 - it's been failing to load your site for at least the past hour, I have no data from before that.

[0] https://isitup.org/jacquesmattheij.com

View on HN

Got the same here, Netherlands.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QSStS_...

Strange how spotty the problem is. Anyway, I'm sure the guys at my hosting provider are on top of this.

Use a proxy, for example:

https://us.hideproxy.me/go.php?u=xRv6FweyJ5wXueEdkahRiAzzGVM...

If he intends it to be working and accessible, and if he doesn't know that it's not working, then simply using a proxy is good for me, but bad for him.

I like to provide value to people who write articles worth reading. Jacques is definitely one of them.

Doesn't load in Canada either, at least for me.

Not just you. VPN to Romania worked for me. It was worth the effort I think.

Doesn't load for me either from several different IPs in France. Downloaded the HTML from a server in the US. Really weird.

I've mirrored it here in case it may help: http://blogs.intellique.com/so-your-start-up-receive-the-nig...

It loaded up just fine for me.

My comment has two upvotes (now five) almost immediately, so I'd guess I'm not the only one.

It is not just you. I had to access it from a proxy. I assume that means he is blocking certain parts of the US, if not the US in its entirety.

> I assume that means he is blocking certain parts of the US, if not the US in its entirety.

On what basis do you make that assumption?

It is still the internet, routing issues can and do occur. There is absolutely nothing in the configuration of my server(s) that would block anybody from any nation.

I'll alert my hosting provider to make sure they know about it just in case it's a novel thing and their monitoring didn't pick it up yet but it could easily be further upstream.

Your site has been offline, at least for me, since Saturday.

Interesting. Ok. I have passed on the info, thank you for the heads up.

I experience the same, UK based.

I'm in the UK and had no problems accessing it (Sky)

datapoint++: UK, BT, cannot access

Yes, but I'm in the UK.

I am too and can access it.

... and I can't.

Or couldn't. I changed IP address and can now.

Many/most people have dynamic IP addresses, and I wonder if Jacques' provider has aggressively blocked addresses that have been abused in the recent past.

There is a chance that they have some automatic DDOS protection mechanism kick in, I know they have some pretty aggressive counter measures in place to protect their links.

Anyway, the server is definitely 'open to all takers', nothing there that could cause this. Also, last Saturday ABN-AMRO (one of the bigger Dutch commercial banks) went offline for many hours due to a huge DDOS, this may be related but I never thought my lonely blog would be in the line of fire.

I've added the non-working IP address into the original reply in case that's of value.

Yes, very handy, thank you.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com