What happened to the site before?

[dragonite24]

The site is working fine now,but it had me confused.

Upon reading the forbidden message,I even thought I was banned for a while..
What was going on?

 

[Exxthus]

I think the site went over its alotted bandwidth for the month or something, and so had to wait until June 1st to get it back up.

 

[Lilac Hill]

Went way, way over the alloted bandwidth.

It was just a temporary closing down.

 

[dragonite24]

weird
What caused the brandwith exceed then?

 

[Exxthus]

Not sure, myself. There was a huge spike in activity on SPP, too, and even Joe was out of the loop as to why.

 

[Lilac Hill]

Platinum?

 

[Exxthus]

Possibly. All on that one day, though, even though Platinum had already been announced. A possibility, but doesn't seem to fit. Perhaps it was a rush to get information on the Darkrai event...? Same problem, but it's a more pressing matter atm.

 

[Lilac Hill]

Well, information was actually a bit slow on Platinum, so it wouldn't surprise if that was a key reason.

 

[Misty]

i'd wager - the end of school and people having more free time to spend on the internet.

 

[GreatLiver]

I'd say it's probably a combination of the two. With news on Platinum being slow people are probably continuously checking for updates, and with most schools being over or ending soon people will have much more time to be on.

 

[ferrari-kun187]

WELCOME BACK! I thought I was banned for something, it was just the server probably.

 

[Lesley_GSC]

Upon reading the forbidden message,I even thought I was banned for a while..

WELCOME BACK! I thought I was banned for something, it was just the server probably.

Lol, that makes three of us.

Anyway, glad to see the site is up and running again.

 

[Umby]

Lol, that makes three of us.

Anyway, glad to see the site is up and running again.

Four. I thought that I was banned too, but I just kept checking just in case. I guess I was wrong, thank goodness!

 

[PAK215]

five. I thought I was banned for some reason. I was glad when I found out it was just the site was having a problem.

 

[dragonite24]

that means thinking this was't stupid of me.
I found out what happened when I spotted a topic about the downtime on the gamefaqs firered boards...

The site is being a bit slow now however...
I actually dislike new games a bit because of this slow effect.

 

[Tina]

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So, this makes me the only user that actually went to go see the main page and figure out what was going on instead of running around like a headless chicken thinking I was banned?

 

[Lesley_GSC]

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So, this makes me the only user that actually went to go see the main page and figure out what was going on instead of running around like a headless chicken thinking I was banned?

Um, nothing related to BMG would work for me. The forums, the 'Pedia, the main page, nothing.

 

[evkl]

The front page had the announcement that we went way over bandwidth, we didn't put it on the forums (somewhat silly, we'll know for next time.)

But so that there isn't a next time, we do have that "donate" button in the top-right corner. And this really does show our money issues: donations are critical at times like these, where the squeeze is upon us. Yeah, I know the economy's bad and it's hard to give money, but if you have anything to spare, please donate.

Thanks!

 

[PoketrainerLuke]

I am so glad the site is back up. I was also getting worried something had happend.

 

[The Outrage]

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So, this makes me the only user that actually went to go see the main page and figure out what was going on instead of running around like a headless chicken thinking I was banned?

Don't flatter yourself Tina

I was wondering why it was posted on the Gateway page and not the Forums considering this is the place we all go to.