website down??

[ric96]

was raspberrypi.org down a few hrs ago or was it just me??

[Laurens-wuyts]

It was down for maintenance

Laurens

[Joe Schmoe]

It was down for maintenance

Laurens

That's what it claimed (You got the "retro style" website, with a message saying it was "down for maintenance". But I'm not sure that it really was. The reasons for this are a little varied (read: beyond the scope of this post), but I suspect that it just puts up that message whenever it is feeling, shall we say, overwhelmed.

[DougieLawson]

Ask Ben Nuttall, he took a look at it when I tweeted to @Raspberry_Pi this morning.

[jamesh]

It was down for maintenance

Laurens

That's what it claimed (You got the "retro style" website, with a message saying it was "down for maintenance". But I'm not sure that it really was. The reasons for this are a little varied (read: beyond the scope of this post), but I suspect that it just puts up that message whenever it is feeling, shall we say, overwhelmed.

The backroom stuff is pretty robust now from a demand point of view - it can handle a lot more people than are usually on here at any one time - this looks like either planed a maintenance, or a problem at the host. I suspect the latter.

I tried to do a tax return today, and HMRC self assessment was off line for maintenance. Once a year I do this, and I picked the one time in the year it was offline.