November 6, 2020: PCD is back up, finally!
Did you try to access the PixarCarsDiecast.com website the last 3 or 4 days, only to not be able to? It happened to everyone.
Our hosting company, Zfast, based in the UK (they acquired NoWires), changed DNS servers... and for whatever reason they didn't update the DNS server addresses for clients (including PCD)... that means your web browsers were trying to go to an IP address that no longer exists... and yes, that's not a good thing.
I contacted them on Tuesday to open a support ticket... multiple times I got a reply that said they announced that the old DNS servers were going away and that we had to update our DNS server addresses... I asked them how I could do that... the last time I mentioned that NoWires used to make those changes for us... 3 hours later I received an e-mail stating that they'd updated our DNS server.
A DNS entry converts a name (PixarCarsDiecast.com) to an Internet address.. it's easier to remember a name than a long numeric address.
So we're good for the time being.
And if you didn't even notice that PCD was down? I may have to think about keeping the PCD website up and running.
Hope everyone is doing well... Please continue to be smart... use social distancing... wash your hands... and wear a mask... I don't like to wear the mask... I wash my hands so much they crack and bleed (thanks to the blood thinner I'm still on after last year's heart attack)... I miss seeing people... but this morning a friend in my bowling league who survived fighting in the Vietnam War, survived a heart attack 2 weeks after I had mine, and survived quadruple bypass surgery... died of COVID-19... and as you might guess, I am gutted.
Chris
Did you try to access the PixarCarsDiecast.com website the last 3 or 4 days, only to not be able to? It happened to everyone.
Our hosting company, Zfast, based in the UK (they acquired NoWires), changed DNS servers... and for whatever reason they didn't update the DNS server addresses for clients (including PCD)... that means your web browsers were trying to go to an IP address that no longer exists... and yes, that's not a good thing.
I contacted them on Tuesday to open a support ticket... multiple times I got a reply that said they announced that the old DNS servers were going away and that we had to update our DNS server addresses... I asked them how I could do that... the last time I mentioned that NoWires used to make those changes for us... 3 hours later I received an e-mail stating that they'd updated our DNS server.
A DNS entry converts a name (PixarCarsDiecast.com) to an Internet address.. it's easier to remember a name than a long numeric address.
So we're good for the time being.
And if you didn't even notice that PCD was down? I may have to think about keeping the PCD website up and running.
Hope everyone is doing well... Please continue to be smart... use social distancing... wash your hands... and wear a mask... I don't like to wear the mask... I wash my hands so much they crack and bleed (thanks to the blood thinner I'm still on after last year's heart attack)... I miss seeing people... but this morning a friend in my bowling league who survived fighting in the Vietnam War, survived a heart attack 2 weeks after I had mine, and survived quadruple bypass surgery... died of COVID-19... and as you might guess, I am gutted.
Chris
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