AOL problems connecting to SOG sites

[Mike McCarty]

Cynthia,

I just tried this: http://199.217.241.56, as you suggested.

What I got was the SOG home page. However, as I have seen many times before, it is mostly a shell. The rotating (refreshed) image at the top never loads (x) and many (not all) of the images throughout the page do not load.

I cannot successfully link from anything on the page with some exceptions. For example, the Connie Erickson link, which is an SOG hosted site, will not come up. However, the Marvin Mattleson link, which is independently hosted will come up. With these type of exceptions, everything else indicates website not found. If I try to go to "competitions," it says website not found, "forum," it says website not found.

Also, when I first initiated this: http://199.217.241.56, it took about 60 seconds to load the home page that I described above.

Also, the other two sites that you suggested came back website not found.

[Cynthia Daniel]

Mike,

You beat me to some changes I made to my post above - I added in some other sites.

[Mike McCarty]

Cynthia,

None of them worked. I think you are doing what I have always been curious about.

[Cynthia Daniel]

Thanks, Mike. I'm not sure what it means, but I'm communicating with St. Louis Internet.

[Cynthia Daniel]

Mike, you're on a Mac aren't you?

[Mike McCarty]

Nope. Windows XP, AOL 9.0 Security (newest)

[Cynthia Daniel]

Mike,

Those other sites listed above. Could you please confirm that you are able to bring them up using Internet Explorer, even tho you couldn't get them in AOL.

St. Louis Internet's Greg Chatten just signed up for AOL and had no problem getting to the site.

[Michele Rushworth]

So, does this mean that all my clients and prospective clients who use AOL would have a problem when they tried to access my SOG site?

I just did a 2,000 piece mailing and a good portion of those people will be using AOL. I hope this doesn't mean that, if any of them should be interested in commissioning me and try to pull up my website to look at, that they'd be unable to do so.

[Cynthia Daniel]

Not necessarily. You posted at the same time as me, so you didn't see in my post just prior where I said that Greg Chatten, owner of St. Louis Internet where my sites are hosted, signed up for AOL and he had no problems with accessing Stroke of Genius. A few months ago, I also signed up for their 30 day free trial and during 30 days, only once did I have a problem accessing the site.

Rest assured, this is not a problem with the hosting company - it lies either with AOL or a route along the way.