elviscostello.info down?

whar · Post by **whar** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:31 pm

This is a tragedy.

Mikeh · Post by **Mikeh** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 3:27 am

..and what has happened to the Elvis Costello Mystery Covers site? He has been in a "hiatus" for a long time now! I used to enjoy down loading them covers.

Masterpiece? · Post by **Masterpiece?** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:52 am

whar wrote:This is a tragedy.

Works fine for me...

http://www.elviscostello.info/index.php

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 6:08 am

It's not working for us in Dublin either, WHAR. This seems to happen every few months, and then without explanation it starts working again. Last time it didn't work on our home computer, but worked on machines in internet cafes down the road. All very mysterious.

ReadyToHearTheWorst · Post by **ReadyToHearTheWorst** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 7:24 pm

It could be a DNS propogation issue - p'raps the site has changed address or host, and that change is slowly working it's way around t'internet.

Masterpiece? · Post by **Masterpiece?** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 10:37 pm

That's what I was thinking, except I didn't post because the lingo wouldn't come to my fingers to describe it...it came out like the DNS thingie takes a day or two to reach everyone's wires.

I'm a geek fraud.

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 11:03 pm

I know he mentioned on Listserv a while back that he was in a turmoil over what to do about the site - that he had a new job or something and didn't have enough time to deal with it anymore. I think he was actually looking for someone else to take it over - a momumental task for sure.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 4:40 am

Is it true that the site once had a ban just against the Foyles?

verena · Post by **verena** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:03 pm

What ?! EC once had a site on the web ? what were these "Mystery covers" about ?

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:42 pm

Sometimes life's little amusements are one's salvation.

Whoops, I mean that for the "random thoughts" thread.

whar · Post by **whar** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:06 am

verena wrote:What ?! EC once had a site on the web ? what were these "Mystery covers" about ?

MANY EC sites on the web. "Bright blue Times" is the greatest one left if Elviscostello.info is gone.

ecinfo was/is an incredible site.

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:17 am

The EC info site has already changed management once, several years ago. A guy named Mark from Atlanta (?) used to run the site before Mr. Everingham took over and really made it an exhaustively complete site for gigs, releases, etc. Here's hoping it continues...

ReadyToHearTheWorst · Post by **ReadyToHearTheWorst** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:28 pm

If anyone here still has access to it (martin?) could they tell us the IP address?

ie drop to DOS (or *nix shell, not sure about a MAC) and try:

ping elviscostello.info

the set of numbers returned should be (eg) 123.123.12.345

Here's hoping.

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:53 pm

It's back!!

wardo68 · Post by **wardo68** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:39 pm

martinfoyle wrote:It's back!!

Yes, but notice that the What's New area now reads August 30; hadn't there been updates since then?

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:29 am

John E posted this note to eclistserv

Hi all,

The Elvis Costello Home Page is back up. Don't know what happened, but there
was some shuiffled(sic) at my web hosting place.

Cheers, JohnE

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:56 am

The site has What's New as 23rd September. At least the year hasn't gone back to 2000!

Glad to see it back.

wardo68 · Post by **wardo68** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:25 am

verbal gymnastics wrote:The site has What's New as 23rd September. At least the year hasn't gone back to 2000! Glad to see it back.

Indeed.

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