OK, so apparently “the great forum outage of 2019” is now over…at least on my browser.
You, me and Balt all posted basicially the same thing at the same time.
Kalmbach IT at their finest! [/sarcasm]
Since 3 threads about this is too many I have deleted mine.
The silence was deafing. Let the posting begin.
I don’t know if this is related to small connection numbers right now, but I just noticed that the page loaded much faster than it has been doing the past few weeks.
Just sayin’.
If it’s like other SMBs that I’ve worked with, Kalmbach’s “IT” is some non-technical manager who is responsible for overseeing the IT outsourcing contract. Of course, he had to hire an IT contractor to write the contract. /NoSarcasm
That would also explain the kerfuffle with the non-monitored Rochelle webcam.
Surprisingly during this forum kerfuffle - I was able to activate the Rochelle webcam and it worked perfectly.
I signed in to the Trains.com site - the section for Forum and Blogs was blank, as it is right now. I was able to fire up Rochelle without issue.
During the outage most of the Kalmbach Media site, including the store, appeared to work correctly. Only the functions tied to cs.trains.com were down, and these only showed a time-out error when attempting to communicate with them. I could see the occasional loading of third-party advertising at the beginning of the outage, so it was the content server that was out.
Interestingly, the ‘Blogs and Forums’ menu content was present during the outage; it just didn’t produce any pages when items in it were selected. It disappeared about the time the site content returned.