[Navi-Gatr]

Has anyone been experiencing problems with Geocheck.org this afternoon?

I am getting the following error message:

"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /geo_inputchkcoord.php on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

when I try to access it either directly or through the links on any of my Mystery caches.

thanks
Navi-Gatr

[pompidoe]

Same problem...

[TheCacheSeeker]

same problem also.

[dfx]

It's dead, Jim.

[SwineFlew]

http://www.downforev...om/Geocheck.org

[ArcherDragoon]

hmm...well that ain't good...I may need to redo some puzzle checks...

[Totem Clan]

GoeChecker.com is working.

[Navi-Gatr]

Totem Clan, on 31 January 2012 - 02:17 PM, said:

GoeChecker.com is working.

In my experience, Geocheck provides better statistical info to the cache owner than Geochecker does. I hope it is resurrected at some point.

[justmeg]

How do you add geocheck to a web description please

[Navi-Gatr]

justmeg, on 31 January 2012 - 02:53 PM, said:

How do you add geocheck to a web description please

Go to WWW.Geocheck.org when (if) it comes back up and follow the instructions.

If it doesn't come back, you can use:
http://www.geochecker.com/
or one of the other cache checkers on the internet

[justmeg]

Navi-Gatr, on 31 January 2012 - 02:58 PM, said:

justmeg, on 31 January 2012 - 02:53 PM, said:

How do you add geocheck to a web description please

Go to WWW.Geocheck.org when (if) it comes back up and follow the instructions.

If it doesn't come back, you can use:
http://www.geochecker.com/
or one of the other cache checkers on the internet

Thank you very much

[lamoracke]

Geocheck.org allows one (well, at least me) the ability to put free text in a message to the person who solves it. With that, I can put hide instructions, actual final coordinates, or whatever...with the dot com one, its just confirmation of the coordinates. Perhaps there is a way, but that is my reason I like the dot org.

[Navi-Gatr]

Geocheck.org also allows the CO to include “child waypoints” with their own hints or instructions to help if people are making systematic errors leading to a particular set of incorrect coordinates.

[Brooklyn51]

Does anyone know if this is just temporary? Who runs the site? Is it time to put new geochecks on our puzzles? We have a new puzzle all ready to go...hmmmm. It will need a geochecker for sure. This is a bummer.

[Albackore]

I hope it's only temporary - this particular checker is definitely the best and I love the stats and tools I have. Weird that the domain owner wouldn't post something up somewhere.

[mc3cats]

I get the feeling that .org site has been org'd. This sucks because I have used that checker on all of my unknown caches. However, I have found a checker my brother in CA uses called CertitudeThis site can keep track of the cachers attempting to solve your puzzle caches. Its not as good as checker.org as I liked to add photos on my solution pages but I guess beggers cant be choosers. I hope .org makes it back, but juding by the 403 Forbidden error code, I am not getting my hopes up.

[power69]

no love for evince?

[dfx]

power69, on 01 February 2012 - 04:01 AM, said:

no love for evince?

Is that the one that only allows one check per 10 minutes and then blocks you for an hour after 3 tries or something?

[Brooklyn51]

It looks like what happens when you don't pay the server bill. I wondered who ran this checker and how it was funded. I agree it is a nice checker and the stat info is great. I'd be happy to chip in a few dollars for its use.

I found an owner for the site in Whois but their email bounces back so that was a deadend.

The nameservers are those of Moniker.net but they too are the registrant and administrator for geochecker.org--this doesn't look so good.

This post has been edited by Brooklyn51: 01 February 2012 - 05:27 AM

[Joshism]

dfx, on 01 February 2012 - 04:58 AM, said:

power69, on 01 February 2012 - 04:01 AM, said:

no love for evince?

Is that the one that only allows one check per 10 minutes and then blocks you for an hour after 3 tries or something?

Yep. I personally hate Evinence for that reason. I guess they're trying to stop people from brute force solving, but I just find it to be a pain in my posterior personally.

[pikacu]

I have contacted the owner of geocheck.org. Here is his reply:

...
Yes, unfortunately, GeoCheck has become so popular, that I have been using too many resources according to my hosting service. Thus, I am in the process of moving the server and hope to have it up and running in the next 12-24 hours.

[ArcherDragoon]

pikacu, on 01 February 2012 - 06:53 AM, said:

I have contacted the owner of geocheck.org. Here is his reply:

...
Yes, unfortunately, GeoCheck has become so popular, that I have been using too many resources according to my hosting service. Thus, I am in the process of moving the server and hope to have it up and running in the next 12-24 hours.

lol...I guess he has made a good product then!!!

[Brooklyn51]

pikacu, on 01 February 2012 - 06:53 AM, said:

I have contacted the owner of geocheck.org. Here is his reply:

...
Yes, unfortunately, GeoCheck has become so popular, that I have been using too many resources according to my hosting service. Thus, I am in the process of moving the server and hope to have it up and running in the next 12-24 hours.

Great news!

[Lieblweb]

pikacu, on 01 February 2012 - 06:53 AM, said:

I have contacted the owner of geocheck.org. Here is his reply:

...
Yes, unfortunately, GeoCheck has become so popular, that I have been using too many resources according to my hosting service. Thus, I am in the process of moving the server and hope to have it up and running in the next 12-24 hours.

Great news!!

I'm going to assume the 'move' shouldn't involve any changes for us.....assuming the data & domain is the same. He's just changing host sites... But I guess we'll wait and see.

[Navi-Gatr]

Fantastic news.

I see that the error message has changed:

"Fatal error: Call to undefined function bindtextdomain() in /home/geocachi/public_html/geocheck/global.php on line 33"

At least something's happening!

[knapaxe]

I'm having problems with gechecker.com as well.

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: User simusi_mysql already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in /home/simusi/public_html/index.php on line 416
Could not connect : User simusi_mysql already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections

[Totem Clan]

knapaxe, on 01 February 2012 - 03:41 PM, said:

I'm having problems with gechecker.com as well.

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: User simusi_mysql already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in /home/simusi/public_html/index.php on line 416
Could not connect : User simusi_mysql already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections

Too many CO's switching over. I just posted this on my caches

Quote

Geochecker.com and Geocheck.org are both down for now. If they are not working within a day or two I will try to find another service. Until then please feel free to contact me about this puzzle.

[lamoracke]

yeah, bad time for me to be trying to solve this chess puzzle right now.

Evince? Huge pain in the derriere is that site.

[_mst]

Have you tried GCcheck.com already?

[power69]

dfx, on 01 February 2012 - 04:58 AM, said:

power69, on 01 February 2012 - 04:01 AM, said:

no love for evince?

Is that the one that only allows one check per 10 minutes and then blocks you for an hour after 3 tries or something?

that be it and thats the only one i use. while theres a few others with more options what good are they when you can hammer them. thanks but no thanks.

[power69]

lamoracke, on 01 February 2012 - 04:13 PM, said:

Evince? Huge pain in the derriere is that site.

Whys that? 4char captcha and enter your coords. pretty easy if you ask me.
the other sites using too much bandwidth obviously have scripts pounding them until correct. no thanks!

[Totem Clan]

I switched to evince. Let's see how long it takes to bring their servers down.

[lamoracke]

evince...sure it works great if you get your guess right the first time, but if you need a few attempts because you are dealing with a puzzle which by nature has many possibilities or is very obscure, its a pain.

[cjfishmusic]

I just tried to Google geocheck.org and this is the message I received:

"Unfortunately, GeoCheck has become so popular, my service provider shutdown the site due to inappropriate CPU/RAM usage. I am working hard to restore service ASAP.

A status update:

A generous offer by the Danish geocaching community seemed promising: They had a server they did not use any longer, which they offered me. Unfortunately, this server has no gettext functionality, which is used throughout GeoCheck to translate the site and have no plans to implement gettext globally.

I am enquiring whether Coolhandle (the service provider of the new server) can upgrade the server to a solution allowing custom php builds.

I am also enquiring as to the price of upgrading my package with the old service provider; Site5, who are also preparing a backup file to allow me to transfer GeoCheck to a service provider of my choice.

Ultimately, a new server of my own would be desireable, however I only have 1 mbit upload with my current ISP, and no experience at all setting up a custom server. Thus, the latter solution is not suitable for the current crisis.

I hope to restore the service as soon as possible, and apologize for the outage!"
So I wonder if that is also the problem going on with geochecker.com.

[lamoracke]

I wonder if he even considered the idea of Jeremy/GS buying it if he cant find a free server. Personally, geocheck org/com are so essential in the process.

[Navi-Gatr]

It's Back!

from the Geocheck welcome page:
"GeoCheck is live once more thanks to Ganja from Sweden who has kindly agreed to host GeoCheck! He has a very interesting site called Project Geocaching. Please check it out!"

[Joshism]

power69, on 02 February 2012 - 03:22 AM, said:

dfx, on 01 February 2012 - 04:58 AM, said:

power69, on 01 February 2012 - 04:01 AM, said:

no love for evince?

Is that the one that only allows one check per 10 minutes and then blocks you for an hour after 3 tries or something?

that be it and thats the only one i use. while theres a few others with more options what good are they when you can hammer them. thanks but no thanks.

I'm pretty sure the actual number of people using scripts or other brute force methods to gain puzzle coords without solving them is pretty minimal.

[Totem Clan]

Navi-Gatr, on 02 February 2012 - 01:36 PM, said:

It's Back!

from the Geocheck welcome page:
"GeoCheck is live once more thanks to Ganja from Sweden who has kindly agreed to host GeoCheck! He has a very interesting site called Project Geocaching. Please check it out!"

Woo Hoo!!!


Everything looks great.

Thanks Ganja!!

This post has been edited by Totem Clan: 02 February 2012 - 01:53 PM

[Bernie The Geocacher]

It is back, but I have tried to edit a solution and the save is not saving my edits. Emaild to see if it is a delay issue with bveing on a newe server. Awaiting a reply.

[Markwell]

Take a read over here

Moun10Bike, on 01 February 2012 - 08:20 AM, said:

Groundspeak does not operate Geocchecker. You will need to contact the developers of that tool.

kamikaze cacher, on 02 February 2012 - 02:23 AM, said:

just realised that geocheck is not on my cache page anymore went to www.geocheck.org which led me to this(hopefully they get it up and running again, so many puzzle caches are dependent on it):

Server outage

Unfortunately, GeoCheck has become so popular, my service provider shutdown the site due to inappropriate CPU/RAM usage. I am working hard to restore service ASAP.

A status update:

A generous offer by the Danish geocaching community seemed promising: They had a server they did not use any longer, which they offered me. Unfortunately, this server has no gettext functionality, which is used throughout GeoCheck to translate the site and have no plans to implement gettext globally.

I am enquiring whether Coolhandle (the service provider of the new server) can upgrade the server to a solution allowing custom php builds.

I am also enquiring as to the price of upgrading my package with the old service provider; site5, who are also preparing a backup file to allow me to transfer GeoCheck to a service provider of my choice.

Ultimately, a new server of my own would be desireable, however I only have 1 mbit upload with my current ISP, and no experiece at all setting up a custom server. Thus, the latter solution is not suitable for the current crisis.

I hope to restore the service as soon as possible, and apologize for the outage!

(So I don't think that it's working anywhere atm)

[power69]

lamoracke, on 02 February 2012 - 07:43 AM, said:

evince...sure it works great if you get your guess right the first time, but if you need a few attempts because you are dealing with a puzzle which by nature has many possibilities or is very obscure, its a pain.

Well then the owner should use the atom bombs and horseshoes option then you can select how far off the coords can be and still green light. I have one puzzle that uses that option.

[Bernie The Geocacher]

My issue with not being able to edit my solutions has been fixed by Samuel. I had an apostrophe in my puzzle and a minor tweak fixed that issue and the new server. This is a great relief that it is back up and running and prtobably under valued by Geocachers.

Many thanks Samuel for your fast fix of my problem

Bernie

This post has been edited by Bernie The Geocacher: 03 February 2012 - 09:58 AM

[Brooklyn51]

Looks like geocheck.org isn't working again. It's not showing up on any of our cache pages and I can't go directly to it.

[dfx]

Does anyone know who runs it? I could provide hosting.

[Kayakate]

Frustrating for me today - had 4 new puzzles come out last night and folks can't check them I hope this can be successfully resolved!

[Brooklyn51]

dfx, on 09 February 2012 - 12:25 PM, said:

Does anyone know who runs it? I could provide hosting.

Looks like Pikacu knows him. He contacted him the last time. See earlier post from Pikacu.

[funkymunkyzone]

Yep, it's completely down at the moment. Might have to move our puzzles to another checker.

[Olddffart]

funkymunkyzone, on 09 February 2012 - 02:50 PM, said:

Yep, it's completely down at the moment. Might have to move our puzzles to another checker.

Looks like Geochecker.com is back up and running again.
Hope he's found a permanent solution to his problems this time.

[Koarschten]

Olddffart, on 10 February 2012 - 03:48 AM, said:

Looks like Geochecker.com is back up and running again.
Hope he's found a permanent solution to his problems this time.

Apparently not, as one is greeted with a default cPanel info page when accessing the site. Dunno since when this started, but it's an issue for over an hour.

[MHz]

Still down today. I sat down and solved about 7 puzzle caches yesterday and still can't check a single solution. Perhaps I will change my own puzzle caches over to using another checker soon.