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Can you hear me now?
Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Monday, September 30, 2019 1:18 PM

OK, so apparently “the great forum outage of 2019” is now over...at least on my browser.

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Posted by SD70Dude on Monday, September 30, 2019 1:22 PM

You, me and Balt all posted basicially the same thing at the same time.

Greetings from Alberta

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, September 30, 2019 1:23 PM

Kalmbach IT at their finest! [/sarcasm]

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by SD70Dude on Monday, September 30, 2019 1:27 PM

Since 3 threads about this is too many I have deleted mine.

Greetings from Alberta

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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Monday, September 30, 2019 1:32 PM

The silence was deafing. Let the posting begin.

 

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Monday, September 30, 2019 1:39 PM

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’.

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Posted by MikeF90 on Monday, September 30, 2019 4:30 PM

BaltACD
Kalmbach IT at their finest! [/sarcasm]

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.

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, September 30, 2019 4:37 PM

MikeF90
 
BaltACD
Kalmbach IT at their finest! [/sarcasm] 

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.

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Posted by Overmod on Monday, September 30, 2019 6:09 PM

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.

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