Difficulties in accessing own web site

[Mike Lewis]

I have a web site that is hosted by a commercial hosting company. Most of the time, it works fine. But often, when I try to access the site from own PC, I find that it is inaccessible. In particular, I get a message "Cannot find server or DNS Error" from IE. If I try to Ping the site, that fails too.

This is very intermittent. It sometimes happens once or twice a day. At others times, I go a whole week without seeing the problem. When it does happen, it tends to last two to three hours, after which all is well again.

For the last few weeks, the web hosting company has been monitoring the site, and they say that it has been up 100 percent of the time. I have also signed up with a third-party monitoring service. They too have reported 100 percent up time.

My question is: How is it possible that the site appears to me that it is down, but these two monitoring services cannot see that?

Put another way, is it possible that there's something wrong on my own system, rather than with the web hosting?

I would add that I don't have any problems accessing any other web site. I visit many sites a day without any unexpected difficulties.

I'd be grateful for any advice.

Mike




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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[Mike Lewis]

ShackDaddy,

Thanks for taking the trouble to get all that information. I'll try speaking to NetPivotal, and report back.

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk