http://www.rangefinderforum.com/

Leigh Youdale · Nov 30, 2011

lxdude said:
I think one on all the different aftermarket lens caps is a more pressing need.

Good one!

Leigh Youdale · Nov 30, 2011

AKITADOG said:
RRF should be up later today or tomorrow. Waiting for parts.

Akitadog

How come US Home Security isn't involved in fixing this? Doesn't it constitute a terrorist attack?

Sean · Nov 30, 2011

They might have the worst host I've ever heard of. It would take a decent host about 30mins to simply copy their files and database to a working server. Any decent host would have done this for them within the first hour of the outage. A response such as "there's been a hardware failure, we are transferring your data to a new server and we'll have you running again asap" is not at all uncommon. Waiting on parts? wow. I'm sure they'll be switching hosts as soon as they can, and setting up their own off-site backups.

djcphoto · Nov 30, 2011

Sean said:
Waiting on parts? wow.

Come on now, they have to be CLA'd first

leicarfcam · Nov 30, 2011

This is what I get when I click the link to rff..

http://cameraquest.com/rangefinderforum.htm/?styleid=28

If you type http://rangefinderforum.com this is what you get..

canuhead · Nov 30, 2011

funny. when I type in rangefinderforum.com I get this site. http://www.rangefinderimages.com/rff.html, so drop the rff.html and you get to the homepage of rangefinder which has a forum with some reference to rff

very interesting...

Sirius Glass · Nov 30, 2011

If they did not have the servers bolted down and someone knocked the server off a shelf, they would be waiting for parts. That happened to an unnamed photographic website.

But Siriusly folks, RFF may had come across the deleted thread in cyberspace!

canuhead · Nov 30, 2011

I'm not a tech in real life or tv but I've been in enough chilled server rooms to think that a server just dropping on the floor has to be pretty remote. Not impossible but unlikely. There would have to be gross stupidity for that to happen, which I'm not ruling out in this case

gb hill · Nov 30, 2011

I beleive the server was built in the Aresnal factory along side the Kiev & it's been sent to Oleg for a CLA.

elcabezagrande · Nov 30, 2011

canuhead said:
funny. when I type in rangefinderforum.com I get this site. http://www.rangefinderimages.com/rff.html, so drop the rff.html and you get to the homepage of rangefinder which has a forum with some reference to rff

very interesting...

rangefinderimages.com is an image-specific spinoff of rff.

BobD · Nov 30, 2011

RFF redirects me to:
http://cameraquest.com/rangefinderforum.htm

Where a doleful message reads:

RangeFinderForum.com is Experiencing Server Problems

We are experiencing problems with the hosting provider. We are aware of the problems and are very frustrated that they have not been resolved sooner. We have been assured the backups are fine. We understand this should have been resolved within hours of the failure but we are at the mercy of the service provider.

We hope to be back on line as soon as possible and are sorry about the inconvenience.

Well, it's only been a week or so. I'm sure they'll have it all fixed by Spring.

SWphoto · Nov 30, 2011

djcphoto said:
Come on now, they have to be CLA'd first

And we all know how slow DAG is at CLAs

drumminor2nd · Nov 30, 2011

SWphoto said:
And we all know how slow DAG is at CLAs

Apparently it's not DAG, but Henry Scherer...

wotalegend · Nov 30, 2011

BobD said:
RFF redirects me to:
http://cameraquest.com/rangefinderforum.htm

Where a doleful message reads:

Well, it's only been a week or so. I'm sure they'll have it all fixed by Spring.

I hope you are talking about the northern Spring. The southern one has just finished and we've got to wait until next September for next Spring. (there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Crazy Fedya · Nov 30, 2011

drumminor2nd said:
Apparently it's not DAG, but Henry Scherer...

They had to be on waiting list for several years, right?

Michael W · Dec 1, 2011

Then after the CLA they'll have to decide on a suitable bag for the server.
Does Luigi do half cases for servers?

tomalophicon · Dec 1, 2011

And there'll be a 'server porn' thread with 10,000 posts of pictures with servers wrapped with green sharkskin leather and 'soft' on/off buttons.

michaelbsc · Dec 1, 2011

tomalophicon said:
And there'll be a 'server porn' thread with 10,000 posts of pictures with servers wrapped with green sharkskin leather and 'soft' on/off buttons.

Oooh! This could be exciting. And a new war, too - Windows vs Linux instead of film vs digital.

Pitxu · Dec 1, 2011

I've had my share of disagreements with the mods and admin at RFF, but geez, you guys really like to kick a guy when he's down eh?

michaelbsc · Dec 1, 2011

Pitxu said:
I've had my share of disagreements with the mods and admin at RFF, but geez, you guys really like to kick a guy when he's down eh?

Actually I like RFF.

But if it's down hard you can either cry or make the best of it. Crying doesn't help.

JSU · Dec 1, 2011

Don't forget to mention the required accompanying "poll"....

LarryP · Dec 1, 2011

I'm beginning to suspect it was a FSU server.

Palantiri7 · Dec 1, 2011

Funny thread

to_st · Dec 1, 2011

Actually, if you click on www rangefinderforum com right now, its available for sale!

$71!

Grab it before they buy it back.

Al Patterson · Dec 1, 2011

Now THAT is funny. I'm one of those RFF gearheads who would buy a Luigi case for my Nook Color...

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/

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