What happened to Stormer Hobbies

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10-17-2007 | 03:54 PM

DOTMAN

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What happened to Stormer Hobbies

I've been trying to get to the Stormer Hobbies site for a couple weeks now and can't seem to bring it up. Are they still in business?

10-17-2007 | 03:57 PM

Cyclone Charlie

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They're still there. I was on-line with them today!

10-17-2007 | 03:58 PM

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I hope so since I bought a servo off them last week. Site works fine for me www.stormerhobbies.com

10-17-2007 | 04:04 PM

Tim W.

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The site works for me. Stormer is by far my favorite online hobby shop.

10-17-2007 | 04:10 PM

EricW

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Try using the IP to resolve the site, maybe your DNS server has a bad entry for stormer.

http://216.146.123.78/

10-17-2007 | 04:14 PM

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Wow, Interesting. I go to a lot of sites and it's the only one I can't bring up either by name or IP. They must have gotten on a block list here somehow

10-17-2007 | 04:29 PM

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Yeah, that was it. It's being blocked. I was able to get there using my wireless card. Thanks for the feedback guys

10-17-2007 | 05:27 PM

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I notice their site is almost always unreachable late at night. My guess is the server is doing backups, but that seems like a LOT of downtime. Are they writing down all the bits by hand?