I am not able to get to tripod.com or any Tripod websites today and I am wondering if anyone knows what's going on with Tripod?

Here's why I care... maybe you have some suggestions about what I'm doing:

My website http://www.caloriesperhour.com/ has gotten very popular and expensive for me. It makes no profit.

It is hosted by cedant.com and they have been great. Wonderful customer support 24/7. However, I needed more data transfer and they are very expensive in that regard.

So I signed up for Tripod's Plus program a few weeks ago to get more data transfer for only $5/mo. I still use Cedant, but I parked some of my huge files at Tripod. This way when my homepage at Cedant loads it gets most of its data (and data transfer) from Tripod.

It's been working great until Tripod seems to have fallen off the earth. If they really did, any suggestions on where else to go would be appreciated. At Geocities I'd get 10gb data transfer for $9/mo. I need very little disk space; just data transfer.

Many thanks,

Peter
peterinwa@attbi.com

I can get to both tripod and your website fine.

I wonder why I can't get to Tripod?

I can go anywhere on the web. Obviously here.

But if I try to go to tripod.com or my area there or even if I go the the parent company lycos.com and click on webhosting my browser can't find a page. And this happens with MIE and Netscape.

Any ideas why my PC would have trouble finding just this one company?

Thanks,

Peter

Said in the simplest of ways: somewhere between your pc and the tripod server the telephone cable is broken so you cannot reach their server. :D

Just wait till they "repair the cable" and everything should be fine again :)

Yeah, depends on the location sometimes......if you're really far away, sometimes the connection breaks before it reaches your computer, so ur comp won't be able to process that data, and then will just assume its offline, and will give you a "Page Cannot Be Displayed" or "Page Cannot Be Found" type of thing.

"Is Tripod Down or Out-of-Business?"

I hope both

:D

"Is Tripod Down or Out-of-Business?"

I hope both


Hahaha ..... lol :D

I have been so frustrated by my problem (which is going to cost me money as I exceed my data transfer limit at Cedant for the month) that I didn't enjoy getting e-mail notifications about this posting only to find the previous two comments.

Perhaps the authors could post something more useful.

As I wrote, I had just signed up with Tripod... and I explained why. Did I make a mistake? Is there a better solution to my problem?

Thanks,

Peter :bawling:

I might suggest that it's from your ISP caching the pages, maybe from a time when tripod was down.

The same kind of thing happens to me from time to time. You can check by going to www.anonimizer.com and type in your domains and see if anythign shows up. This will let you know if the server is down or if its just a problem between you and tripod. I hope this helps :)

1- Traceroute is made for this purpose :) "tracert" under windows and traceroute under unix.

It will show problem. If you can reach their site then proceed to next section.

2- Does your ISP uses some kind of cache etc? If so it must have cached something wrong.

And another advice, clear your browser cache and try again.

3- Check this on your command line:

nslookup yoursite.com

If it can not resolve it to its IP addreess then you have a DNS server problem. Contact your ISP and they may restart their DNS server.

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