The site’s currently down, confirmed using http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/java4k.com. DNS entries are still active, but it’s not responding to pings. That’s about the extent of the investigating I can do, maybe appel or another admin can check it out? It was up and running fine when I last visited at 3pm ADT yesterday.
All good now, the site is back up.
Next time maybe wait for one day or longer before making thread about this because sometimes it happens.
Well, I waited for 4 hours before starting the thread, which makes about 6 hours of downtime from the time I noticed it (no idea of total downtime.) In fact, it’s down again right now.
Yup, it’s not loading for me either. ^^
Above was posted at 9:05AM ADT. As of right now (3:01PM ADT), the site is back up. I’ve been checking once an hour all day, so downtime today was at least 5 hours.
Might be worth talking to the network host, as having 11 hours of downtime (at least that much) in a 48 hour period is pretty bad.
If I understand this graph correctly
http://s14.postimg.org/ra2o3za5p/9057_0.jpg
(link to current Netcraft graph, the site has been down for the past 24 hours.
I can confirm that it was down for that period as i was going to see how nicely a j4k game will play on a eee pc netbook but couldnt 
It was misbehaving some time ago, and I almost gave up on it, then it became stable. Now in recent days it’s been bad. I’ve replaced hardware in the server to pinpoint the hardware error. Hopefully this time around it’s going to behave. If not I’ll fix it by getting another box, because the current one is obviously flawed.
Sorry about it, it’s a bit tricky to pinpoint which hardware module is flawed, and I like to play the game of elimination before I spend $$ on new stuff. You have to wait and see.
No worries, it performed well for the contest period, that’s the most important part of the year. 
I just wanted to make sure someone knew.
PS: Thanks for hosting the site, I just assumed we were using a free webhost somewhere.
It was misbehaving some time ago, and I almost gave up on it, then it became stable. Now in recent days it’s been bad. I’ve replaced hardware in the server to pinpoint the hardware error. Hopefully this time around it’s going to behave. If not I’ll fix it by getting another box, because the current one is obviously flawed.
Sorry about it, it’s a bit tricky to pinpoint which hardware module is flawed, and I like to play the game of elimination before I spend $$ on new stuff. You have to wait and see.
No worries, it performed well for the contest period, that’s the most important part of the year. I just wanted to make sure someone knew.
PS: Thanks for hosting the site, I just assumed we were using a free webhost somewhere.
Is the site just PHP backed by MySQL or something like that? If so, you could switch to a free host. There are a number of hosts like www.000webhost.com that provide PHP, MySQL and a decent amount of space and bandwidth/data transfer for free. Not that bandwidth is much of a problem I suppose, with the jars being only 4KB! 
Is the site just PHP backed by MySQL or something like that? If so, you could switch to a free host. There are a number of hosts like www.000webhost.com that provide PHP, MySQL and a decent amount of space and bandwidth/data transfer for free. Not that bandwidth is much of a problem I suppose, with the jars being only 4KB!
I’m in the process of moving the site to a new host, a more reliable one.
Unfortunately the site will be down in the meantime, the next 24 hours or so.
edit: the site is back up and running on the new host.
I’m in the process of moving the site to a new host, a more reliable one.
Unfortunately the site will be down in the meantime, the next 24 hours or so.
edit: the site is back up and running on the new host.
This is realllllllly retarded.
I’m getting “Incompatible magic value 1008813135 in …” error on almost every applet. No idea what is causing this.
After some googling it says that the "1008813135 " value translates into “<!DO”. Which is strange, because the applets that are being sent from the new host are identical to the ones on the old host, I compared them with the original copies that I have verified and no difference.
Either this is only at my end or something is really fubar with java applets (wouldn’t be the first!).
Anyone let me know if they can find out what’s going on?
Wow that is weird. Are you sure the server sends the class files properly without modification on the way?