Seriously Fish database

[Essjay]

I use Seriously Fish's database as my main source when researching fish. I have just tried to look something up and I get a 404 error message. When I googled SF, the first item was titled "Seriously Fish - Domain Name Expired".


Does anyone know what is happening at Seriously Fish? Has it gone forever?

 

[Munroco]

It seems they know about the problem and are trying to fix it. They have a facebook page

 

[Byron]

The Facebook page has not been updated since May 2, so this is not a recent acknowledgement.

The site went "off-line" back in April/May for a full week, and again a few weeks back it was off for two days. But the current "domain name expired" is new this time.

I am a regular contributor to the scientific data in the knowledge base, and I've worked closely with the site owner, Matt Ford, for a few years now; most recently I was revising the loach family entries. Matt has not been responding to anyone's emails so far as I am aware. I'm rather worried frankly, for Matt as well as the site. He is a tremendous fellow.

I do not have the private emails of anyone other than Matt so I can't contact the others.

Byron.

 

[Munroco]

Aaaah your right, I didn't notice the date of last post

 

[hobby5]

I though the same. It all looks a little strange. Fingers crossed here!

 

[Essjay]

Panic over.

I've just tried Seriously Fish and it's up and running. As it is 8:30 here, I don't know when it came back as I've been asleep

I've waited patiently during the down times where there was just a 404 error message, but the 'domain name expired' had me worried.

 

[julielynn47]

Not working for me. 414 error-URI too large

 

[Essjay]

Curious. After reading your post, timed at 5 mins ago, I loaded SF perfectly.

Is it back to its 'sometimes there, sometimes not'?

 

[Byron]

The site is coming up for me.

 

[marnold00]

414 URL too large can be caused by a number of things:
1) the physical request URL is too large - this is often caused by malicious inject attacks, or just simply badly formatted web addresses
2) web POST/GET (the method used by your PC to send Data, or to make a request to receive data - a common way for websites to work) methods again being too long

there's probably others but I've barely dealt with these before. I'd say that a combination of the initial 404 and now the 414 (assuming you aren't trying to hack) probably means they (or their hosts) have been doing maintenance and had a few slip ups either way it seems that everything is ok now.

 

[julielynn47]

It is back for me as well now