Elvas Tower Maintenance

[eric]

etlogo.jpg Elvas Tower is having a maintenance window tonight starting around 11:30 pm Central Tme (04:30 GMT) and lasting about an hour.

If you can't get into the site around that time, there's no need to panic.

If it's starting to get into Friday morning and the site is still down.... well.... that's another story.

[ngc427]

Minorly related, but it might be a good time to bring it up considering the topic, I've had a broken Elvas Tower for ages. It seems to be IP based, because when I use a VPN it works fine, and on my laptop it loads fine to, but on my main PC it just rejects loading.
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(How it looks when I try to hop on the homepage)

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(How it looks when I follow a specific link elsewhere)

I highly doubt I'm IP banned, I'm on good standing with everybody there (although I'm not as active in the forums there as I am here).

[rdayt]

Your IP is blocked. Dave did the same thing to me last month.

Randy

[derekmorton]

laptop it loads fine to, but on my main PC it just rejects loading

If they both work through the same router, then its not an IP block?

Can you clear cookies and try again?

[eric]

Dave is no longer running the day to day stuff and handed off ownership almost a year ago to Rui. You might want to reach out to him or perhaps someone here who also help out over there might know how to address this.

That type of redirect does look like it's happening based on the host IP. When you use a VPN, your public IP gets scrambled to the public IP of the VPN service.

[rdayt]

My IP showed up as a possible attack vector since I refresh the page often.
Dave told me this and removed the block when I explained I was a real person.
I messaged him through the ET messaging system using a vpn.

Randy