PowerBASIC site down.

Exploration Gaming · July 22, 2013, 01:35:18 PM

Ive noticed that PowerBasic (www.powerbasic.com) has been down the entire weekend. Anyone else having trouble accessing the site?

Marc van Cauwenberghe · July 22, 2013, 02:54:09 PM

I noticed this today.

Marc

Rolf Brandt · July 23, 2013, 03:17:52 AM

Yes, I was just trying to check the forum. Site is down.

rb

Jim Dunn · July 23, 2013, 08:00:33 AM

I noticed the WHOIS has changed, still says "Bob Zale" but the email says troy@leaderchip.com

They're still using Network Solutions as their registrar and DNS... which means IP address changes take days to propagate

(I use eNom, takes minutes to change a server IP address)

Anand Kumar · July 23, 2013, 09:01:32 AM

Incidentally 'Leaderchip.com' seems to be providing IT services support in south florida area.

Exploration Gaming · July 23, 2013, 11:35:49 AM

I sent an email to PowerBASIC, not to worry.. read below..

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Actually we moved into a new shop, and have more resources to help us out with. The website may be down for another day or 2, and the phone is in the process of switching carriers, possibly going voip. Sorry for any difficulty, we are trying to get this up as fast as possible.

Our email server is part of the installation, so we have to deal with this on a email-by-email basis.

When our servers are 100% up we will be doing some more sales, so keep checking in!

Thank you,

Jim Bailey
PowerBASIC Staff

Cho Sing Kum · July 23, 2013, 12:36:11 PM

Quote from: Jim Dunn on July 23, 2013, 08:00:33 AM
I noticed the WHOIS has changed, still says "Bob Zale" but the email says troy@leaderchip.com

They're still using Network Solutions as their registrar and DNS... which means IP address changes take days to propagate

(I use eNom, takes minutes to change a server IP address)

I have 11 domains registered with NetSol and I noticed their Name Server (NS) updates are very fast to effect.

Examples when I changed hosting (therefore NS) or bought new domains and host somewhere else (I do not have hosting at NetSol), my update on their NS to point to my hosting take effect in a few minutes, provided I do not use my ISP proxy server in IE. If I use my ISP proxy, it will take 2 days before I can see my website again. Due to proxy cache I think.

PB's NS are at this time ns27.worldnic.com and ns28.worldnic.com. Both belong to NetSol. If they are hosted by NetSol then it is strange that website is down. If hosted by leaderchip.com then why NS is not theirs?

Jim Dunn · July 24, 2013, 10:46:22 AM

Quote... When our servers are 100% up we will be doing some more sales, so keep checking in ...

Well, more sales, that's good and all... but... sure would be nice to get some *support*... I'm yet to get a HISTORY.TXT for the last release.

Mike Doty · July 24, 2013, 11:53:04 AM

Just talked to Jim Bailey on the phone and they are having ISP and phone problems and hope to be up tonight. The company is expanding!

Jim Dunn · July 24, 2013, 08:49:59 PM

Would be interesting to see the business plan for "expanding"... there's a small pool of customers.

José Roca · July 24, 2013, 10:21:54 PM

Don't confuse the number of customers with the number of forum members. When I earned my life as a programmer, I wasn't member of any forum.

Marc van Cauwenberghe · July 25, 2013, 05:23:50 AM

Anyone have any idea about how many customers we are talking about?

Marc

Rolf Brandt · July 25, 2013, 05:32:21 AM

They are up again...

Rolf

Mike Doty · September 06, 2013, 11:34:50 PM

Looks like it is down again, today. 9/6/13.

Paul Squires · September 07, 2013, 12:35:16 AM

Very disappointing. I wish they would get their act together.