sheepdog 10 Report post Posted November 17, 2011 I just discovered my site is down. It was working fine last night. I called a friend and had him check to see if he could load it, just in case it was something wroung with my goofy computer. But he couldn't get it to load either. I have already submitted a support ticket, but this really worries me. I am afraid it will be down awhile. Hope it's nothing serious, this is NOT a good time of year for me to be without a web site. (not that any time is mind you.) Is there anything else I can try????Oh, and how do you get comments to post in the recent comments on the right side of the main Xisto page? I just get an "action failed" message every time I try to post something there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
k_nitin_r 8 Report post Posted November 18, 2011 I just checked my website and all is well. I checked both my static home page and my blog, which is powered by the MySQL database, and both are accessible and provide a timely response. Perhaps the issue occurred when you checked and it is back to normal now? Free web hosting comes with its drawbacks but I've learned to live with it - if I'm not paying, I don't really mind if there's some downtime occasionally. I tend to think of how a web hosting service that I paid for would respond if they had some downtime - they most certainly would not part with the money that was paid to them and give me a refund or even credit to make future orders for the duration of the outage so I stand to lose much much less with a free web hosting service.The recent comments on the right side of the Xisto page displays comments that you set or comments that somebody else sets on their profile. Although it is supposed to let you reply to messages from the sidebar, it has some sort of a bug that displays the action failed message. To get around the bug, simply go to your profile page (if you want to post a comment about yourself) or go to the profile page of the user whose message you want to reply to and type in your message there - that works and I always use it when the right sidebar widget quits on me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sheepdog 10 Report post Posted November 18, 2011 Thanks for responding, my site is back up now, guess it was just some minor glitch, but it doesn't take much these days to send me into a full blown panic attack! I have been busting my hump for the past few weeks trying to sell, and boy is it ever slow! Never seen a Christmas season as slow as this one. Last year wasn't anything to brag about, but boy is it ever worse this year. Nothing I do seems to help. I really want to take a vacation this year, didn't get to last year but if things don't pick up that's not going to happen. Thanks for the tip on the side bar comments thing. I'll have to try that next time I want to reply to one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
k_nitin_r 8 Report post Posted November 18, 2011 Hi!Good to know that you have a web store. What do you sell?I haven't been using my website to sell anything but have yet to make any revenue from the websites that I run (or at least used to run). I am hoping to take my website seriously enough to make a living out of it as I am currently unemployed and don't have enough time to take up full-time work alongside my research studies.If business is slow, then perhaps you have found the time to take a vacation! You would not want to go vacationing with orders pending from customers, would you? Besides, with the Christmas spirit and in the spirit of cheer and merry-making, you could go visit family and friends, or have them over to celebrate.The profile comments page works for me flawlessly every time, so you might want to give it a try instead of relying on the sidebar comments feature. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sheepdog 10 Report post Posted November 18, 2011 Good to know that you have a web store. What do you sell?LOL, I figured by now everybody knew I sold pups. Can't leave this time of year, it's supposed to be my busy season, but this year it's not working out that way. Can't really take a vacation if I don't have any money. It's funny how used to you had a business and thought you should get a web site to promote it, and now people want web sites to start businesses. Seems like it wasn't long ago at all that I started seeing the first tv commercials that included a web address, and now nearly all of them do. What are you planing on selling or doing to make money with your site? With so mamy competing web sites, it's not easy to find a way for sure. What are you researching? Maybe a part time job would work better for you. It is almost easier these days to find part time work than it is full time with everybody cutting back. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
k_nitin_r 8 Report post Posted November 19, 2011 Hi!I'm planning on starting a site about management theories and techniques and selling books. I'm not too sure if there are many takers because most managers end up learning on the job rather than reading about how it is done while, in the process, putting billions of dollars down the drain. Perhaps I might put a twist to it and write about management information systems because most I.T. folk read a lot of articles on the Internet, especially when there is a problem that they want to solve. The free content would be a bait and hopefully they would want to buy some books while they are on the site. I do not expect much money to come in but as long as it can pay for itself and later make enough to hire an author to keep posting to the site.Wow! You have a website to sell puppies? I'd be glad to lend a hand and help you out with the website if you need any work done on it. And perhaps you could have it linked to your cell phone so you can continue with your business while on the go. Have you considered becoming a pet consultant? You could have a Q&A about pets and share your experience with dog breeding.If you would like to go on a vacation, there are plenty of cheap ways to go on a vacation. You could rent a camper and head out to the woods or go across the state borders and cash in on a cheap hotel offer (most of them offer weekend packages). You could also visit family and they would be glad to have you over for the holiday season and you just might find something under the Christmas tree to cheer you up.The idea of getting online has been around for a long long time but it is only recently that people have decided to make their websites a central part of their businesses and as the sole channel of marketing and sales. Some people use websites to attract people to their exhibitions, such as by reaching out to potential customers on FaceBook and Twitter while other people setup FaceBook pages to sell stuff. Either approach seems to work for them, though it takes a bit of experimenting to figure out which approach would work best as it depends on the audience that you are trying to reach and on the product that you are selling.BTW, the Xisto forum has been upgraded and the sidebar for comments is working now. It does take longer than it used to but hey, it's better than something that does not work at all. The forum also displays a progress bar on top of the screen to indicate that it is working and not simply idling away. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tibrewalalok92 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2012 It must b some problem wid d server @ ur web host... may b some server crash sort of thing... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
