BBSDown

[Scott Turchin]

Well this is BUILT with Powerbasic and if your website should ever go down you could use this to inform your customers it's down - it's a simple web server that sends 1 page or 1 picture depending on the request.

In that manner it would enhance your PB products - ?

Could I have you guys check it ouit and give some constructive feedback?

Thanks to everyone for helping wiht this as well - this program has not seen teh shareware market in 11 years.

http://www.tngbbs.com/ccs/bbsdown/

ALSO NOTE - This uses my (finally repaired) CCSREG dll - I'll tell you in a PM where it puts the "install date" so you can delete that file

[Joe Byrne]

and if your website should ever go down you could use this to inform your customers it's down

Ah, I don't get it. How can I use the web to tell people the web site is not working? Kinda like reaching for the light switch after the power outage....."oh yea, that don't work "

[Knuth Konrad]

I guess, the idea is to temporarily change your DNS record to the machine running BBSDown.

Or perhaps just your main webserver (software, not hardware) has a problem. Than just start up BBSDown and tell folks you're down for maintenance.

[George Bleck]

It appears you would run it instead of whatever main website you would run. It replaces the Web server (software) while it is down.

Example, you are doing a main site upgrade or doing patches on your server software. Run this simple self contained little ditty and it allows you to have a presence while you doing the upgrades.

Kinda useful for self-hosters but I think professionally hosted people would just point to a landing page temporarily.

[Joe Byrne]

Ah, ok.

[Scott Turchin]

It appears you would run it instead of whatever main website you would run. It replaces the Web server (software) while it is down.

Example, you are doing a main site upgrade or doing patches on your server software. Run this simple self contained little ditty and it allows you to have a presence while you doing the upgrades.

Kinda useful for self-hosters but I think professionally hosted people would just point to a landing page temporarily.

Exactly - Except if you've ever seen an intense Dot-Net heavy application and you change anything in the roiot configuration it tends to spiral downward and affect the other virtual directories - that can get ugly real quick - so we just shut off the webserver for a few hours while they did code updates etc...

This lil app would have worked wel there but it was last modified in PB For Dos - that's how long ago I had it...(For dial up BBS's, DNS with the internet has a slight difference.....

And yes you could just change internal dns to point to another server if you had a hardware crash etc...

Still beats "Cannot find server or DNS error" if you are a website that generates revenue from search engines....I will never go back to a site that doesn't open the first time....