Xara Tutorials and Movies

[angelize]

I've also given Gary and Barbara Bouton a heads up on this.

[Gare]

I'm sorry that I didn't see this thread sooner. I made an announcement in the Xara Xone area, didn't expect to find anything here, though.

@Acorn—the videos play okay because they aren't hosted locally. They're on YouTube's servers.

The server has been down since Friday afternoon New York DST, and Barbara notified TPTB shortly after that.

As far as we know at the moment (because no everyone works on the weekend), Barb and the other Admins at The Xara Group will be migrating content to a new server (thus alleviating a chronic problem) to go live on or about Monday morning.

"Stay tuned" is the best anyone can offer right now, sorry to say.

My Best,

Gary

[angelize]

I've moved this thread to the Xara Xone forum and stuck it for now to make this information easier to locate for anyone who might be wondering why the Xara Xone can't be found.

In the meantime here is a link to the Xara Xone Youtube Channel where you can still watch the videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/XaraXone/videos

[Gare]

It's Sunday, August 4, about 10.30am New York DST, and Xaraxone.com has been partially restored now.

Be sure to clear your browser's cache before trying to get there, and please do not post here that you can't see Xara Xone if you haven't cleared the cache in your browser! The DNS is going out to a new server now and the new address might take a while to percolate through the intertubes, okay?

Thanks!

Gary

[angelize]

I've cleared my browser cache and still nothing here yet. I'll check again later.

[Gare]

It went up at 10.30, Barb and Xara worked on the new server for two hours, it now has other problems, tomorrow we're estimating, sorry.

-g

[Barbara B]

Hi All--

The XaraXone is up and operational now on new server hardware. Along with the server change there has also been a DNS change that is working throughout the Internet. If you are not able to see the Xaraxone.com now, you may need to clear your browser cache, or wait a while for the change to reach your part of the world. Also some internet service providers use proxy servers to speed up browsing, especially for dialup and DSL customers, and it may take a bit for those proxy servers to catch up.

The server that XaraXone used to be on was acting up and becoming unreliable, so a move to new server hardware was scheduled for Mon Aug 5th with goal of being a seamless and undetectable transition. Unfortunately the old serve decided to quit after 5pm Friday (UK time) and was not able to be restarted -- so it was on to plan B - do the move Sunday instead of Mon and use a backup instead of a transfer. That appears to have been successful, but we will be testing tomorrow to make sure that nothing got dinged in the process.

If you notice that something is not quite right please PM me with the details.

Many thanks to Dan M at Xara for working on a Sunday night to make this happen as soon as possible.

--Barbara Bouton

PS Please pardon the cross posting but I want everyone to be sure to see this.

[gwpriester]

I just got a note from Xara that the servers are back:

Hopefully all fixed now. We've had problems with the 1&1 server recently, we moved it to a new one yesterday.