Avsim

***Thoe6969*** · January 24th, 2009, 11:21

Anyone else notice avsim being down?,I haven't gotten in yet today.

g7usl · January 24th, 2009, 11:23

Yes the site is down

harleyman · January 24th, 2009, 11:34

Been trying all day since 6:30 AM......:faint:

**Chuck_Jodry-VJPL** · January 24th, 2009, 11:34

It’s not down , its overwhelmed with hits , i have not been able to post today’s files even.

Talking with Tom about it this morning i was informed the News Aces was closed has caused so many hits that there is insufficient bandwidth to accommodate the traffic to the forums and Front page

Things should return to normal once the idea sinks in that MS has canned the finest group of Avation & Train modellers ever assembled under the same roof .....

***guzler*** · January 24th, 2009, 11:43

Ive been on there today guys

**Francois** · January 24th, 2009, 11:46

ROFL.... we had our own theories about that

**FLighT01** · January 24th, 2009, 12:17

I haven't been able to get on since the news about Aces hit the fan.

***Navy Chief*** · January 24th, 2009, 13:17

I guess I don't get it. Why would there be so many hits because of ACES being axed?

NC

**GT182** · January 24th, 2009, 14:13

Originally Posted by navychief

I guess I don't get it. Why would there be so many hits because of ACES being axed?

NC

One word... panic. :costumes: Over what, I don't know.

**Pepere** · January 24th, 2009, 15:24

It's been open all day for me?

David

**Cactuskid** · January 24th, 2009, 15:37

It's open, but no new files are posted. It's still yesterday's stuff...

***GypsyBaron*** · January 24th, 2009, 22:51

I can get to the main page and the library page OK, but
when I attempt to get to the forums I get an all white
page with the message
"IPS Driver Error"
"There appears to be an error with the database."
"You can try to refresh the page by clicking here"

in the upper left corner.

It's been like that for me since sometime this afternoon ( Sat. 24th )

Paul

***IanP*** · January 25th, 2009, 01:25

It was fine for me until America woke up, then it went fine again after most of Europe went to bed.

Fortunately, I was able to get the files I needed from flightsim.com in the meantime, so I wasn't that worried. I've disliked the Avsim forums and many of its denizens for years anyway, so I only really miss it when I can't find something I need, like the patches for the default Cub and Goose to make them work better...

(The Cub is here, but the Goose isn't.)

***srgalahad*** · January 25th, 2009, 01:33

Actually I had to chuckle over what I saw when I logged on to AvSim's forum mainpage...

The first item on their news page was, of course, about ACES
The second item was a request for someone to help, or take over managing their servers/database

So I go to the link in the first post to read the blog and what do I get???
The IPS database error...

Yep!! better get a response to #2.. quick!:help:

**Francois** · January 25th, 2009, 02:41

:kiss::kiss:

Funny thing is, Avsim didn't have the news for many hours after we posted it already. But it seems SOH and simFlight readers and forum visitors are more level headed than those on Avsim. No panic here that I can see.

Or maybe we just use better technology ? :gossip: