30 minutes without the webs!

July 18, 2001 10:21 AM

Plastic.com has been down for at least the last 30 minutes... Their web servers respond, but with a blank HTML document. (I didn't think this warranted a front-page post, but it might if this goes on for much longer.)
posted by waxpancake to General Weblog-Related at 10:21 AM (23 comments total)

I've tested it in Opera and IE, via proxy (using Safeweb), and on two different web servers using Lynx. So I'm pretty sure it's not just me.
posted by waxpancake at 10:23 AM on July 18, 2001

Yup, I get the same thing, so it's not just you.
posted by zempf at 10:25 AM on July 18, 2001

Two of my friends in the Bay Area both say it's displaying fine. Which is strange, because if it was a connection problem (ie router difficulties), I wouldn't be able to connect to the web server at all.
posted by waxpancake at 10:42 AM on July 18, 2001

Definitely not you. Blanky-blanky here too.
posted by Skot at 11:08 AM on July 18, 2001

More blank than an autobiography written by an retrograde amnesiac.
posted by iceberg273 at 11:12 AM on July 18, 2001

Same here. Connecting from Europe.
posted by chaz at 11:12 AM on July 18, 2001

affirmative on that blank.
posted by lotsofno at 11:18 AM on July 18, 2001

The page loadsfine in Atlanta.
posted by trox at 11:39 AM on July 18, 2001

Two of my friends in the Bay Area both say it's displaying fine. I think they are hiding something from you. Either that, or, they are viewing cached copies without knowing it...
posted by rschram at 11:52 AM on July 18, 2001

Get them.
posted by solistrato at 11:57 AM on July 18, 2001

Impressively, the DNS here still points to NetBoy, as it did when Plastic first went live. Thus, it works for me - but not really.
posted by hijinx at 12:07 PM on July 18, 2001

looks fine in chicago
posted by moz at 12:28 PM on July 18, 2001

A'OK in San Diego.
posted by rschram at 12:36 PM on July 18, 2001

3:46 pm ET (12:46 pm PT). All is well at Plastic. Repeat. All is well.
posted by jpoulos at 12:47 PM on July 18, 2001

*sighs, removes special hollow point bullet back out of gun, relaxes.*
posted by dong_resin at 1:24 PM on July 18, 2001

Perhaps they were upgrading their content...
posted by fooljay at 1:30 PM on July 18, 2001

Yep, it's back up.
posted by waxpancake at 1:33 PM on July 18, 2001

Still up...
posted by fooljay at 9:52 PM on July 18, 2001

Still up and, even in victory, still shilling for a Webby. ;-)
posted by bradlands at 11:48 PM on July 18, 2001

1:20am...still up...
posted by fooljay at 1:07 AM on July 20, 2001

Okay, seriously, is it worth a Metafilter thread to discuss whether another site is down? If your access is bad, go away and try again in an hour. More often than not, that "fixes" the web site.
posted by werty at 6:19 AM on July 20, 2001

6:54pm...still up
posted by fooljay at 6:47 PM on July 24, 2001

Okay, seriously, is it worth a Metafilter thread to discuss whether another site is down?

FWIW, this isn't a MeFi thread. And I don't think it's worth a MeFi thread, no.
posted by hijinx at 7:46 AM on July 25, 2001