RootsWeb Offline Websites Down after 5 days

[Guy Etchells]

RootsWeb Offline or down. It seems Ancestry are still having problems with their rootsweb servers they have been offline for about two days now.
An errors message from Rootsweb.com says:
We are experiencing some temporary Rootsweb site problems.
We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.
Our development and web operations teams are working on the problem and we will have it resolved as quickly as possible.
Thank-you for your patience.

I hope this is not a denial of service attack and that the Ancestry servers will not suffer from the same or similar problems

Cheers
Guy

[Rena]

I regularly use rootsweb to refer to the information on the Hugh Wallis site, to sort the chaff from the wheat on familysearch website, and it's been down for about two or three days.  When I saw your post I nipped along to check if it was back online - no it isn't. 

[3sillydogs]

See it's still down, must be a real big problem.

[hallmark]

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ is where to check.

[hurworth]

Via the link
"We're currently experiencing a temporary website outage due to Rootsweb hardware failure. Rest assured, our development and web operations teams are busy working to securely restore the site as quickly as possible. Our initial expectation is to have the site back up and running on or around March 15, 2016.
We apologize for the disruption and thank-you for your patience.
We will provide other updates here as we have them"

Hopefully back by St Patricks Day then. 

[trystan]

That's a long time off, but I expect that their backups are absolutely massive which could take that long to restore them.

Trystan

[Guy Etchells]

That's a long time off, but I expect that their backups are absolutely massive which could take that long to restore them.

Trystan

I am wondering what has happened as it is not simply one server that is down.

All the mailing lists worldwide (which are as far as I know hosted on a number of different servers) are down, the surname lists are down the freespace websites are down etc., etc..

It could be hardware such as the load sharing servers have failed but it seems something very unusual has taken place

Cheers
Guy

PS the "world" servers seem to take you immediately to the error message as do the .com servers
The "intl" servers and the "index" just seem to hang without taking you anywhere

[tillyc]

All I get when I try to access the site is 'this page can't be displayed'. 

 So thanks for the explanation.

[sugarbakers]

Whilst the live Mailing Lists are down, it would appear that the List Archives are still available, if anyone needs them ...

eg:

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SFK-IPSWICH
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/YORKSGEN
(just change the list name)