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On the first part, the site to which I moved is, unfortunately, a paid site (through 1and1 hosting). I primarily use it for my professional site, but was able to move the site from here over there on an emergency basis. On the second part, there is an easy way of doing this if you get even a...

I just recently switched from an old-style Captcha to the new Google Recaptcha. It has significantly reduced spam overall, and gotten rid of one particularly persistent bot that was sending me multiple e-mails each day. I've also become a fan of mechanisms to reduce spam without human input...

Given that I just got a 503 on your site, maybe that greeting is premature? ;)

I'm seeing your background image. (Actually, the whole page becomes invisible when I look at it without the background image, because it would be white text on a white background.) The trouble is, the background image is a very large image (as measured by pixels, not file size), and thus the...

Yeah, mine is a WordPress site. I was able to download the database, and use it to recreate the site elsewhere, so I wasn't entirely starting over. But it was still a pain, particularly since all this happened at the very time that registration for the contest was closing, and a lot of people...

I've had a similar issue with mail from my Ninja forms. I've run a test, and the e-mail seems to be sent out, but never arrives. I think the problem is that with a free server, many people abuse the e-mail privileges, so a lot of providers (AOL, Hotmail, Gmail) start blocking all e-mails from...

You were the one who treated "has an issue" as the same as "is down" (i.e., "if your x10hosting's server has a issue (i.e. is down)"). For me, a 503 error is an issue, even if the server is not down--and I had specified several times that the issue was 503 errors. Having a redirect that works...

You might wish to check pretty much any of the other threads on this page, almost all of which report the same issue. One of the servers (xo7) has been having huge issues for days, and every site on that server is having the exact same problem. This page will have updates on the resolution of...

Dead-i has now posted a very helpful explanation of why something static like a redirect works while a PHP page like the one I originally had on this server does not.

Thanks for that explanation. I moved my pages to another server, and created a redirect, because my page really needed to be up through December 24. (It's a registration form for a local contest, and the registration deadline was that day.) Another member has been telling me that the redirect...

@l4w2game : Just tried removing the redirect. I again got the 503 errors, so I put the redirect back. I'm finding it odd that the status page says, as of December 24, that the xo7 server is having problems "that developed last night." My first post in this thread was dated Sunday, and noted...

It hardly matters. I'm sure there is downtime. Heck, I've been complaining about the downtime for days! The question really is whether it's better to have the page on x10 or to have a redirect from x10 to a more reliable server. If people can refresh and get to the redirected page the second...

Sorry, I thought they had said it could take several hours, but I'm not finding that myself right now. I apologize if I mischaracterized the situation. I suspect the short down time is what makes the redirects work while the page does not. If a downtime happens while a page is loading, it can...

Somehow, it is receiving the redirect, even though I can't get the site to show in the absence of the redirect. My guess is that the problem is that the server is so busy with someone else's bad script that it can't show a whole page, but it can act on a one-line redirect. But I'm not the...

Thank you for that!

I'm finding the scrolling Recent Topics a bit baffling. If I see one I want to click on, there is a fair chance it has already disappeared by the time I get to click on it. And I can't find a way to make it scroll backwards to the one I want. Right now, the problem can be resolved by taking...

Seems to have started working now, so I'm deleting. Keeping my fingers crossed that it stays working!

I have now had to move my site to a different server, and put in a redirect, because things got so bad. But I still desperately need to get this one back up and running, because there is a whole lot of data in it that will just not appear on the other server, even though I imported the whole...

@Sharky : Yeah, some of the time it loads quickly. However, it's going up and down. I'm totally desperate, because we have only 24 hours before registration closes, and it's been down for at least a couple of hours now. I see that there are multiple other people getting these 503 errors. We...

I couldn't manage to make any other color stand out more. But I've now added a text shadow, which I hope helps!