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How To Check If A Site Is Down

Now i made this thread because im seeing people making threads like ''is HF down''. Now there are a few ways to check if a site is down theres no need to make a thread about it.

What to do
1 way to do this would be to go to http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ and enter the name of the website you want to check is down, and it will tell you. It is right all the time, never once let me down and i use it whenever a site seems to be down.

Another way would be to go to start>run>cmd> then type ''ping'' without quotes and then space and the name of the website then hit enter.

If you get ''reply from ........'' then the site is up. If you get ''request timed out''. Then the site is down.

I hope this helps some of you and you use it before making a thread

Oh and im sorry if this aint the right section, didnt know where to post it.

Very nice tut, i use cmd to ping the ip all the time.
Thanks for the tut.

This is pretty old, but it's still a nice tut.

(06-14-2011, 09:47 AM)Old Wrote: [ -> ]This is pretty old, but it's still a nice tut.

yeah i know lol its just i was seeing a lot of people asking weather a site was down so i assumed that they didnt know how to check for themselves

isn't pinging the url effective too?

(06-14-2011, 11:05 AM)etc Wrote: [ -> ]isn't pinging the url effective too?

Im not sure what you mean exacly, ie. ping www.supportforums.net
if thats what you mean then yes.

Good tutorial inc3pt!on

imop the best way to do it is http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ or http://www.downornot.com/

Ping doesent always work for me idk why

Decent tutorial there. It works, for sure. Pretty known, but thanks for posting.

Good tutorial, although it is quite old most don't even know about it. Good tutorial Inception.

Omni owns one of these himself.