RAT downtime

[jvrjenivs]

Could you not make it so that if the server is down it takes you to a free hosting site or something similar that tells you the problem? I'm no computer genius so i'm not sure whether this is possible

I think that's simply not possible. If there is something wrong on the server, but you could reach him (so the internet tells your pc where to find the page) the board (and main-site) system automatically generate an error message, which then have to be solved. The problem here seems to be that you pc didn't get told where to look for the romanarmy.com directory on the entire net. Because you wouldn't guide into the right direction (you wouldn't guide in any direction at all) you simple cannot told to look at an alternative page (if it is a free one or not). Another problem could be that you are directed into the right direction, but that particallary directory isn't online, whatever the reason will be. In this matter it would be possible that you would be redirected to another directory insteat of searching for the page that couldn't be reached, but this would be an expencive system, that I think isn't that common that RomanArmy.com could afford it.

So I don't think a automatically solution could be found. Only thing that you could do is start a kind of error blog somewhere on the net (with an easy to remember URL) where you put actual information, but I don't think there is need of it. I think we could wait some hours and try again later, and then find a topic on the error, and be happy it's solved.