Trying to Work Out a Technical Problem…..

August 2nd, 2008 by zen

There will be blog posts this weekend after last week’s slowdown. Right now, however I have a question: Is anyone having problems connecting to zenpundit.com using iE ? Firefox seems ok.

Thanks!

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  1. Selil:

    August 2nd, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    According to Newshoggers sites are having issues this morning that have site meter installed. http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2008/08/blogger-problem.html Just as you described.

  2. historyguy99:

    August 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    Hi Zen,

    Funny you asked. I had the same problem since last night. also could not access several mutual blog friends, Information Disemination, ect. I could get on other blogger sites, just a few and mine were blocked and noted as not able to connect on iE.  I know that blogger.com had a note up, that they were having tech problems and some blogs could not post due to being identified as spam? This AM seems to be fixed..

  3. Bob Morris:

    August 2nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    Take out third party java scripts.
    http://feeds.cadenhead.org/~r/workbench/~3/353596895/sitemeter-crashes-internet-explorer

  4. Jeffrey:

    August 2nd, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    I’m posting this from IE7. No problems.

  5. arherring:

    August 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    I had problems connecting last night from and this morning from work (2 different OSs, ISPs and verisons of IE), not only here, but also at Soob, Wizards of OZ and Global Guerillas.

    It all seems to be resolved though now.

  6. Dave Dilegge:

    August 2nd, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    Several minths ago Zenpundit via MIE was kicking my butt.  Of late – no problems.

  7. morgan:

    August 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    Tried this morning and got a mesage this morning that Interenet Explorer couldn’t open your web site. This afternoon, no problem.

  8. Younghusband:

    August 2nd, 2008 at 10:53 pm

    I would have thought anyone smart enough to read Zenpundit would be smart enough not to use IE in the first place. [/snark]

  9. zen:

    August 2nd, 2008 at 11:36 pm

    Much thanks to everyone and those who emailed. The problem seems to be over now fortunately.  Sitemeter took a beating on this one, deservedly but overall I can’t recall a problem on this scale from them for years. I think they had a total meltdown once from a DoS attack but that’s it.

  10. John M.:

    August 3rd, 2008 at 5:49 am

    In case anyone was curious about the specifics of the SiteMeter snag, here is their response to my query:

    Dear John,

    We apologize for the problem this has caused on your website.  We became aware of a compatibility issue with our SiteMeter tracking code and IE 7 (possibly IE 6) browsers that started last night.

    The problem was related to some work we were doing on the backend system for our upcoming website launch.

    We’ve identified and resolved two separate but related issues –

    1 – IE Users viewing pages – There was a problem with users who placed their SiteMeter tracking code outside of their HTML Body Tag. Because of the changes we made this created a failure for visitors viewing sites using Internet Explorer 7.

    2 – Accessing SiteMeter and Stats – Individuals trying to access or view their SiteMeter stats by clicking on their SiteMeter logo/icons were unable to gain access. This again appears to have affected only individuals using IE7.

    At this time both problems have been fixed and our services are fully operational.

    If you have any additional questions please let me know.

    Sincerely,
    Andy
    SiteMeter Support

  11. Dave Schuler:

    August 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm

    I gather that that SiteMeter had problems other than the two above that they’ve also fixed which for some reason or other they’re not mentioning.  There were problems reach my site yesterday using IE7 (although there were no problems with IE6), problem 1 above was not the case WRT my site, and the problem has now been resolved.

  12. Sean Meade:

    August 4th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    what Younghusband said