Yep, since IB have bought out PPruNe: the availability of the site has been patchey to say the least of it. I do subscribe to
VB and that system seems OK. So whats going on, we were told that the servers were to be upgraded a few months back - Is this the result ? - Someone on AARSE sugested that PPrune had been the victim of a denial of service attack by hackers in a far eastern country. I do not have access to the sophisticated equipment that would support this hypothisis. but a bald "could not connect" Msg by ISP to the users is a bit tatty.
Every time PPrune falls over, a few more users will come to the conclusion "Screw this for a game of soldiers" and pprune looses contributors.
If IBs' current servers are vunerable to attack, (like everyone else's to a degree) come clean about the probs. Not everyone is behind a Firewall (inbound and outbound traffic monitoring )/Router/anti virus combo (like me) and I'm sure I'm not perfect. That's a seperate issue of user education. XP and Vista set up properly help in this respect.
The reputation of a valuable resource (PPruNe) is gradually being compromised.
Grumpy CAT III