Bogleheads.org is offline - Comcast is the problem [RESOLVED]

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Bogleheads.org is offline - Comcast is the problem [RESOLVED]

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For those FWF'ers who also frequent the Bolgeheads® forum, you may have noticed the site has been unreachable since yesterday afternoon. The FWF admins and the BH admins are in regular contact and I've reached out to them for an explanation.
The site is down because Comcast has an outage in the Miami area where the forum server is located. The server is fine but there's nothing the server admin can do until Comcast fixes it's outage that our server runs on. Be patient.
More details can be found in Bogleheads.org - Morningstar forums.

One of the ironies, the internet was originally designed to be robust and resistant to such disruptions.
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Bogleheads.org is expected to be back online today (Sunday), possibly later in the afternoon.
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A further update:

The Bogleheads.org server was moved to another location. Unfortunately, the new location was also served by Comcast. While the connection was working, it was poor quality and could not be used for a server.

The server is now back in its original location. Comcast promised to have service restored by 1:30 PM (Eastern US), but that deadline has passed. We're waiting for Comcast to restore service.
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Service has been restored.
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Peculiar_Investor and LadyGeek,

Thanks for the status updates!

It's really a good idea to use FWF to keep us informed when Bogleheads.org goes down.
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You're welcome. The Bogleheads.org thread is here: Bogleheads is back!!!
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Re: Bogleheads.org is offline - Comcast is the problem [RESOLVED]

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Bogleheads.org is currently down for me. Is it Comcast again?
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Don't know, but http://www.isup.me/bogleheads.org says it is down for everyone.
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I must have missed it, the site is online now.

Scanning the home page, I see a small break in the thread listing around the time longinvest and Peculiar_Investor say it was down. Perhaps it was Comcast again.
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