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[mweed]

Planet Magpie is a big IT firm back out in the San Francisco area.   Maybe Ugobe has decided to go back to using a hosting company . . .

[DragonGirl]

I notice the DNS servers for ugobe are registered with planetmagpie DNS services as primary
and secondary.
PlanetMagpie is in Los Gatos, CA.
The IP block is owned by Savvis, so I'm guessing this is run out the Savvis Santa Clara Datacenter.

If they are doing a transition, it's a really bad one.

bad pleo... no biscuit.

[mweed]

They're last transition (back in December)  was also very poorly implemented.  Lots of down time and weird server placeholder messages . . .

[kisumi]

i think its unlikely, but it is perhaps a possiblity that Ugobe are working fast and hard to get a new OS update or/ and product out to try and get some income that the pleoworld website has been put back on the prority list and thats why there is so much downtime at the moment with the switchover. With only 20 odd staff at the moment it looks unlikely that they would have time to focus on the site and save the company. Though the site is also vital to the companys publicity

[Junkroxy]

The sites are online again! 

[kisumi]

horray! all good things come to those who wait (very patiently) lol

[fancyfont]

All I get is Magpie on my computer. Can you actually get onto pleoworld?

[gucci_boi7782]

yeah i had the same problem too, fancy.

try http://www.pleoworld.com......it wasn't working for me when i typed in just pleoworld.com

[fancyfont]

I get the same magpie.

[kisumi]

maybe its still glitchy but i just typed pleoworld.com in and it loaded the page okay

[gucci_boi7782]

Hmm now that's odd. I wonder why that's so fishy for everyone? For me it wouldn't work w/o the www. and for you fancy it just wouldn't go through. Now that beats me. Where's all our tech-heads at? Lord knows I don't speak a lick of technology!

[DragonGirl]

PleoWorld is generally working OK for me with and without the www.  I can see
that going to pleoworld.com is doing a redirect to www.pleoworld.com.

forums.pleoworld.com is still down giving...
Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)
which seems to me they don't have that setup yet.

[gucci_boi7782]

Welcome DragonGirl!!

[bjoreman]

Hmm now that's odd. I wonder why that's so fishy for everyone? For me it wouldn't work w/o the www. and for you fancy it just wouldn't go through. Now that beats me. Where's all our tech-heads at? Lord knows I don't speak a lick of technology!

It's, basically, because the internet doesn't have a central server which tells everyone where everything is. Depending on where you connect to the internet (or where you decide to look if you're really advanced), you will go to a certain server to find out where things are. So you enter pleoworld.com into your browser, and it will connect to the given server and ask where pleoworld.com is. Something like a address book or phone directory. These servers send updates to eachother when things change, but it might be a while between a change in one server and that change being sent on to other servers. So, when pleoworld moved from one server to another someone told a few of these servers that pleoworld can now be found at a different point than before. From then on, the new information would start spreading around the globe until all servers are updated. Until they get updated, though, servers will keep sending browsers to pleoworld's old location. So that's why some of us could reach pleoworld sooner and others later, we just happened to ask for its location from a server which had got the new or old information.

Hm, did that make anything clearer? The servers are called Domain Name Servers (DNS), they're mentioned sometimes here and there so it might be fun to have a grasp of what they are.

[DragonGirl]

Hey to you too!

I would have expected less issues than were seen. 

I wonder if they did proper TTL transition.
DNS (Domain Name Servers) have mechanisms to try and tell other servers how long do you keep information
before you go look it up at the authoritative server.  When a domain name server looks up a name, it also gets
back a value for TTL or time to live. 
That saves having to look up a name with the authoritative server every time it gets asked.

Yet, there are servers are out there a that don't observe that, or are otherwise configured wrong,
you can see problems for 24-48 hours after a transition has occurred.