Main CC Site Temporarily Unavailable

College Confidential Community
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For those of you who have been trying to reach the main [College</a> Confidential](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/]College”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/) site, it has been down since earlier this morning due to a major connectivity outage at the datacenter where it is hosted. Fortunately, our CC forum data center is in a different state. The forum experienced some slowness earlier due to trying to communicate with the other datacenter, but we’ve implemented a workaround and the forums are now loading pages quickly.

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But, wait until the site is back up! Thanks for your patience!

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ooh i did experiecne some slowness yesterday, but I’m not complaining. :slight_smile:

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Can you explain the distinction between “talk.collegeconfidential.com” vs. “collegeconfidential.com”?

Also, why is this site accessible through the “talk” portal only (at least from where I sit :slight_smile:

When do you expect the main site to be back up and directly accessible?

TIA

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talk is the forum part (this site). the latter is the main College Confidential…um…company. admissions advice, essay services, etc.

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This outage has continued far longer than expected due to the data center’s inability to get going. It’s a long story involving multiple hardware failures, incorrect shipments, and probably human errors that nobody is owning up to yet.

The CC server has been physically transported to a new data center, and should be online later today. We are also bringing a backup server online in a West Coast data center in case problems continue.

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Always the last error to reveal itself!! Good Luck…you must be very frustrated.

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Finally, we appear to be on the air again!

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You’re trying to torture us!!!

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The forums are still very slow.

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We’re working on that… :slight_smile:

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Please give the chipmunks some additional food rations so they will run faster…it works everytime.

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More chow…the rats need more chow. Slow again and again. I am sure you know this…I feel for 'ya but continually telling us it is fixed now has little credibility.

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seems hazmat the only one with the problem…:confused:

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I had communication w/ Mr. Roger_Dooley and they have worked it out until it creeps back…they have been and are working on it.