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Yeah, I can bring up Reel Talk, but all attempts to find other pages by using the buttons up top (Home, What's Hot, et al.) bring up this message:

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The website and now RT are having issues since yesterday. The webmaster is aware of it and working with the service provider to find the root of the new problem(s).
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All the reel websites are down, too.
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The Wordpress software and plugins that run the ORCA website are having issues. Our webmaster and the host service provider techs identified the issue, “fixed it” and then it pops up again. They are continuing to work on resolving the issues. RT went down for a while too but that is a separate issue. Apologies but bear with us.
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Wow. Terrible timing for this, with the Convention and all. Good luck guys!
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I don’t know about the rest of the site, but the reel research pages seem good now.
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We are back up and running. Long story short a small simple function file on the server was getting corrupted. So when anyone tried to go to the site it would request that file which held the instruction set about our site and due to it being corrupted it couldn't find it. Sorry for the inconvenience, I more than anyone would like to know how or why to prevent future issues, but just like any computer issue, rarely do they tell us when they are going to throw a shoe, they just do it. Matt
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Thanks, Matt. We've been reading about corrupted files for decades, but I've never understood how they get corrupted. Even offline programs somehow get corrupted. I can understand how a hacker can diddle around with code, but how do these corruptions occur spontaneously? Is there an explanatory link I could try?

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No, not really, that was kind of the unabridged short and sweet version of the last 40 hours. Truncating scores of messages, advice and timing communications from half way around the world, 6 hours worth of chat sessions, one session so graciously included 45 minute hold time before the chat, on fathers day, of course during dinner, as these rarely break during 8x5 hours.

It technically was renaming itself, which added layers to the riddle and literally left me scratching my head especially after we fixed it a half dozen times only to have it change itself back to the wrong name after it was "fixed", and honestly still does have me baffled. But for the lack of having a plausible explanation to pass on as to the hows and why, its just easier for me to throw the word corrupted at it. It could be an easy explanation of an auto update going awry or two software's not playing nice together, to reasons like you stated such as coding, malware or the malefice side of the internet. Usually after a good brain buster like this I try to drive off and not spend too much time in the rear view mirror because its hard to ever really know the true answer with so many pieces and probables to the puzzle.

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Have we ruled out operator error? :lol: :lol:
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Have we ruled out operator error? :lol: :lol:
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Said the person who just posted twice.....
Yeah Im pretty sure 8)
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Damn Russian hackers! :type: :mrgreen:
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