Rootsweb

[MaryT]

Rootsweb is down. And with it, all it's mailing lists. No-one seems to know when it might return.

Ancestry Insider

And with it the website for my one-place study

Trees are still (sort of) accessible, but you have to be prepared to wait about 5 minutes for a page to load, so not really.

 

[peter]

Rootsweb is part of Ancestry - it's possible that it has been subjected to another DDOS attack.

 

[MaryT]

Ancestry are saying there's been a hardware failure, and that Rootsweb should be back up on or about 15 March

 

[peter]

should be back up on or about 15 March

Beware the Ides of March....

 

[Pauline]

should be back up on or about 15 March

Seems to be happening now. My website is up and running again, and some list mail is tricking through - including a spam one!

 

[MaryT]

Mines back up too!