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regulate_now Champion Author Indiana Posts:6,626 Points:1,009,050 Joined:Jun 2008	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 8:21:51 AM Ignore regulate_now Report Abuse Today, this morning Gas Buddies went down for about 3 hours. It was not accessible from an app, a browser, a smartphone, pc, anything, etc... Servers do down? This is the 3 or maybe 4th time in a couple of weeks this has happened with each time getting longer or worse... What gives?

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Today, this morning Gas Buddies went down for about 3 hours. It was not accessible from an app, a browser, a smartphone, pc, anything, etc... Servers do down? This is the 3 or maybe 4th time in a couple of weeks this has happened with each time getting longer or worse... What gives?

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crmedic Champion Author Arkansas Posts:2,909 Points:248,475 Joined:Jul 2011	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 9:40:32 PM Ignore crmedic Report Abuse Thanks Don! Just wanted to make sure it wasn't on my end!
Don Moderator	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 12:35:33 PM Ignore Don Report Abuse Sorry for any inconvenience. We experienced a temporary performance issue earlier this morning. This should be working properly now though. Thank you for your patience. -Don
a5 Champion Author Ottawa Posts:4,488 Points:2,148,960 Joined:Sep 2005	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 12:22:09 PM Ignore a5 Report Abuse i checked the Ontario site and all is back to normal but the Ottawa site has broken "American" mapping features and the local Ottawa forum is NOT available. Normally in Canada, since GB can't get a Canadian map, they have the features hidden that refer to a map. The "gas price map" and the button that you can click on beside any station's price posting are never there. Now they are there but there is no map and no price flags.
RichWLIN Champion Author Indiana Posts:4,244 Points:665,590 Joined:Jun 2011	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 12:13:09 PM Ignore RichWLIN Report Abuse From 6:15 - 6:48 this morning I could not access the IndianaGasPrices site either from the app or my PC. I was curious to see if this was a localized problem and attempted to log on to sites in other states including: OH, MI, PA, VA, MO, WA, CA and DC. In most cases, a partial web page loaded and displayed a text message in red across the top of the page as follows: "An error has occurred. Please let us know what you were doing when this error occurred. The ERROR ID is:...." "Please email us HERE" The error message figures were different for each site that I visited. With regard to the app, it would open; however, it would not load any station or profile info during this time. RG [Edited by: RichWLIN at 1/16/2013 12:14:25 PM EST]
scoutmaster Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:82,137 Points:3,280,345 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 11:43:05 AM Ignore scoutmaster Report Abuse Yup I had issues this morning on my phone and PC. All cleared up now. Nothing more to see here - move along.
Gas_Buddy Champion Author Maryland Posts:26,197 Points:3,060,750 Joined:Aug 2004	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 10:10:52 AM Ignore Gas_Buddy Report Abuse Similar to bytebug, I haven't experienced a problem using either my home computer (a netbook) or iPhone. Similar to Scrapheap, I'm not concerned with a Commuter award (let alone any of the mobile app awards that will likely be asked about in new topics started as a result of this "outage".Side note to bytebug: Congratulations......tomorrow
RichWLIN Champion Author Indiana Posts:4,244 Points:665,590 Joined:Jun 2011	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 10:09:12 AM Ignore RichWLIN Report Abuse It was definitely down this morning and it apparently effected the consecutive day counter. I wouldn't have noticed this, and don't really care, but yesterday was my 500th consecutive day and today still is.
The_WB Champion Author Detroit Posts:13,888 Points:2,084,225 Joined:Apr 2007	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 9:37:47 AM Ignore The_WB Report Abuse Add S/E Michigan to the system down list @ 5:00 AM EST.
rumbleseat Champion Author Winnipeg Posts:23,059 Points:3,549,400 Joined:Oct 2002	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 9:09:50 AM Ignore rumbleseat Report Abuse Yes, the site was down! Unless you really think those of us in Indiana, and Oregon, and Manitoba were ALL using the same computer, or were using the same ISP!
regulate_now Champion Author Indiana Posts:6,626 Points:1,009,050 Joined:Jun 2008	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 8:50:32 AM Ignore regulate_now Report Abuse I'm positive, the whole thing was down this morning from about 5:15 AM EDT to 8:15 EDT... I tried several sources, different hardware, and different sites... As I said, it has happened more recently and it would be nice to know if it's hardware, software, hacking, viral, infrastructure, etc... Some posters here act like the old geezers from the Muppet Show just posting nonsense instead of contributing to a real discussion... This is not a thread griping about points, days, whiners, etc... I hope GBs gets back to us and lets us know what's going on, who knows, maybe we can help?
TUrtLE1625 Champion Author Oregon Posts:659,008 Points:3,659,990 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 8:48:49 AM Ignore TUrtLE1625 Report Abuse bytebug, GB was down from 2:23AM to 5:15AM PST. I check JFF when it comes back to check the down time. I also had emails from several GB's who couldn't access.
bytebug Champion Author Orange County Posts:26,538 Points:4,150,355 Joined:Oct 2001	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 8:40:51 AM Ignore bytebug Report Abuse Are you sure it's the site that is down and not something on your end? I haven't had an issue getting to the site in years.
Scrapheap Champion Author Virginia Posts:14,689 Points:2,385,295 Joined:Sep 2006	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 8:38:31 AM Ignore Scrapheap Report Abuse Heavens to Betsy! So many people are going to be cheated out of their Commuter Award. Oh the humanity!
regulate_now Champion Author Indiana Posts:6,626 Points:1,009,050 Joined:Jun 2008	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 8:28:19 AM Ignore regulate_now Report Abuse Moderators, please tell us about whats going on and Scout can ignore your replies...
scoutmaster Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:82,137 Points:3,280,345 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 8:25:32 AM Ignore scoutmaster Report Abuse It's all back up now. Moderators, Please close this topic as it is no longer applicable.