I haven’t been able to access the State Journal-Register’s website since Sunday morning. I’m getting a Network Solutions placeholder page when I try…

A friend of mine said last night that he was having the same problem, then all of a sudden he could access the site. The SJ-R’s news feed is showing up in Google and IceRocket like it’s still online, so we figured that the paper has changed Web hosts and it’s taking some time for everyone to be able to access the page.

But until I can get to it, there will be no SJ-R stories posted this morning.

*** UPDATE 1 *** I still can’t access it, but a recent story in the SJ-R’s news feed is entitled “Newspaper’s Web site should be available to all users later today.”

So nice of them to finally let us know.

*** UPDATE 2 *** A couple of pals sent along the content of that new story…

The State Journal-Register’s Web site, www.sj-r.com, is available to the majority of site visitors following technical difficulties Saturday night.

The site is expected to be fully functional to all visitors later today.

The problem was related to maintenance issues involving the site’s server. Some subscribers were able to access the Web site early Sunday afternoon after technicians from The State Journal-Register and the newspaper’s parent company, GateHouse Media Inc., corrected the problem.

The newspaper apologizes for the inconvenience.

*** UPDATE 3 *** Well, it’s four o’clock and neither Kevin nor I can access the SJ-R’s site. What the heck?

*** UPDATE 4 *** It’s 5:54 pm and I finally have access.

       

15 Comments - Little Egypt - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 8:53 am: Very interesting. I was able to access SJ-R.com last night but cannot this morning. On the front page of this morning’s edition they say the problem is fixed. Apparently not. - Crimefighter - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 8:53 am: I’m able to reach it now, you’re gonna have to clear the bogus ip address associated with www.sj-r.com on your end. - Ghost - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 8:54 am: lol I have been waiting for the morning shorts so I could post a complaint about SJ-R being done but the little side feed being up. Well so much for my morning adventure. - Princeville - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 8:57 am: I got it back about 1pm yesterday afternoon. Had same thing you are getting most of Saturday afternoon/evening and Sunday morning. - Anonymous45 - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 9:00 am: ditto for me… - muon - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 9:01 am: I tried linking to the sj-r through the articles on the GOPUSA ILLINOIS post at Illinoize and it worked fine. - Commonsense in Illinois - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 9:07 am: Rich…I’ve been linking from your site just fine… - Anon - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 9:09 am: The SJ-R’s new ownership is dumbing down its internet page to be identical with Rockford and Peoria. All the future video will be on YouTube so the State Employee’s wont be able to view it! Good Job Gatehouse. - Wacker Drive - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 9:18 am: On a different note, since the Rezko trial will be winding down, you should start a What-If pool regarding Rezko’s fate. ie; Walks away a free man, community service for one month, gets nervous and spills the beans on Blago, leaves the country via PalWaukee Airport, etc. - Dave - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 9:37 am: I’ve had no problem accessing the SJ-R since about 11:00 pm last night. It was down for a long time before that though. - Mary Richards WJM - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 9:46 am: I called SJ-R main switchboard this morning; I was told that www.sj-r.com would be down until later this afternoon. - noname - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 10:53 am: Crimefighter - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 8:53 am: WROTE: I’m able to reach it now, you’re gonna have to clear the bogus ip address associated with www.sj-r.com on your end.” what do we have to do to change the ip address to the correct one? - anon - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 11:44 am: It is a DNS issue (looks like they moved sj-r.com to their corp office from network solutions according to whois ) that appears to be fixed for most ISP’s but not all yet, that’s why some people can get on and some can’t. I use OpenDNS at home and their site has been working for me since early yesterday morning. They (OpenDNS) update their DNS cache frequently so the change was noticed almost immediately when it happened. Easy to setup and instructions are on the site, if you are in need of a fix. - Pot calling kettle - Monday, May 5, 08 @ 4:22 pm: Maybe they are trying to block Rich because he is not in the legitimate media…and of course they wouldn’t want readers of such a questionable media source visiting their web site. - anon - Tuesday, May 6, 08 @ 6:51 am: take a look at pjstar.com looks like the folks out east aren’t done moving things around yet. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.