UPDATE: The website is back online after technical issues were resolved.
Getting lots of notices from people via email, so figured I’d post this.
Here’s what I know:
1. Jo recently moved the entire website to a new provider to save costs.
2. There have been some technical issues with the performance of her site on the new ISP.
3. Yesterday, direct links to postings stopped working, but the main page at
http://joannenova.com.au worked OK
4. The last email I had from her last night said she was looking into the problem.
5. Since her direct email is also part of the suspended account, I don’t know yet if I can communicate with her. Emails don’t appear to be bouncing. Whether she can access email or not is another question.
6. As of this writing is about midnight in Perth, so she may not even be aware of the outage.
7. joannenova.com.au Is Hosted by SoftLayer, Inc.
- Hosting: SoftLayer, Inc. host the domain joannenova.com.au
- IP Address: 75.126.209.56
- Name Servers: ns1.easybudgetwebsites.com.au, ns2.easybudgetwebsites.com.au
Read more about hosting at www.whoishostingthis.com
I suspect technical issues over censorship, so I advise everyone not to jump to conclusions.
UPDATE: I’ve sent a query to the legal department of SoftLayer, Inc. to see if there was a legal issue of any kind. – Anthony
I’ve now heard from them:
The problem is not here with our hosting services. If it was, the website would not resolve to anything other than perhaps a “parking” page. We do not have any feature on our system that would cause the words “account suspended” to be displayed.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Brenk Johnson
UPDATE2: I’ve heard from Jo Nova via email, it is a technical issue, not a legal takedown. It seems to be related to some cache issue with logfiles that went out of control requiring the shutdown of the specific hosting server.
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Anthony – if it’s a problem with the hosting (technical, or censorship by the host), please forward my email address. I may be able to help out on that front.
I wouldn’t put it pass the Australian government to block or censor her website. The next to go could be Jennifer Marohasy.
This is to be expected after all, since we know the Goreacle invented the internet and if he put as much effort into that as he did into putting truth and accuracy into An Unconvenient blah blah blah, then there is no doubt this is a tech issue.
Hate to be cynical but “Account Suspended” sounds intentional to me, not a technical problem.
Hmm, after being asked not to jump to conclusions we seem to be jumping to conclusions. Think cock up rather than conspiracy until we know different
tonyb
Let’s not get overly-paranoidal here folks, ther’s a variety of reasons this could be happening, Government censorship being bottom of the list, Finkelsteins ‘report’ is not (yet) law.
This could be a hack or a server/software issue.
I am also getting the ‘Account suspended’ message – Jo – if you need an alternate host I may be able to assist WUWT has my email address and my permission to disclose it to you on request
Aidan (Maylands)
I always thought government censorship might be a possibility in light of the Franken-Finklestein Report. No doubt the government wants Jo’s and other anti Agenda21 blogs gone…
Let’s hope it’s a technical issue and not electronic media censorship…
Expect Romm and SkS to launch a campaign against censorship and…wait, there’s two nurses at the door, they’re holding a straighjacket for me to wear, I might not be back!
‘I wouldn’t put it pass the Australian government to block or censor her website.’
If that is the case I’ll be down to Canberra to thrash the living daylights out if them.
Markus Fitzhenry
http://www.climate-sceptics.com/
Oh my … I’m scanning through the posts on this site. I’m going waaaay long on tin-foil futures. I wish there was a futures market for “trivial matters” too.
@Sonny
As Jo will readily recognise, Maylands is a Perth Suburb. We are (possibly close) neighbours 🙂
I very much doubt officaldom has anything to do with this (with the possible exception of some Labor functionary complaining about the site) – more likely a hack (any number of suspects, Occupy, Getup, Anonymous etc etc all have very good IT ‘nerds).
But there are ISP’s and even individuals that also have very good IT skills so if Jo is under attack, I may be able to assist – hence my post
Regards
Aidan
“I’ve heard from Jo Nova via email, it is a technical issue, not a takedown”.
Great news! Jo Nova’s blog is very important for science in Australia. History will be the ultimate judge of just how important.
We’ve just gotten back from Perth a week ago. They’ve had some very nasty storms recently.
Small tornado, flooding, high winds. It made a mess of things there.
@John@EF: Mate, ‘they’ have been working on brainwaves and how to intercept/change them since the 50’s at least – maybe the tinfoil is a good idea ? 🙂
My own POV is that they can probably can read thoughts, that the tv is a two way system and every message over the net is interceptable and readable
(On the tv side – I worked many years ago in the UK TV Licensing office and I can assure you that the tv detector vans, back in the early 70’s – could and did detect not only that you were watching a tv but which channel you were watching (out of 4 channels then).
That means a two-way signal, what do you reckon they can do now with the digital stuff?
I don’t give a stuff personally, even if they could monitor every word, the massive data input means they wont be bothered about me – and we have enough trouble with illegal immigrant camps, so the ‘re-education’ camps are some way off yet – we may even have an election before that starts 🙂
Regards
Aidan
Thanks for covering the problem, Anthony. I was concerned that censorship might be the reason. These problems usually result from inattention to an invoice, or a technical problem.
JoNova does ask for donations, and her money situation could be tight.
Thanks for covering the issue, Anthony.
Sometimes it’s just a matter of dealing with technical difficulties…
Aidan Donnelly said: June 18, 2012 at 9:43 am
… That means a two-way signal, what do you reckon they can do now with the digital stuff? …
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Justify advertizing fees.
Hopefully it’s a technical issue and not media censorship. That would look really bad on the Australian government. She is not alone. My compliments to those who have offered to help her as noted from this posting as well as a couple of commentators.
It sounds a bit tin-foil hat to even consider censorship but considering the fraud that has occurred thus far with regards to promoting CAGW nothing would be surprising anymore.
If the past is any indication of the future then a ‘model’ would show the likelihood of censorship. 😉
Re: Aidan
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/11/smart_meter_privacy/
Apparently the brighter bits of the screen take a little bit more energy to display than the darker bits. As a result they can match the slight changes in power usage with a particular TV program to determine what it is you are watching. Smart meters can sample your energy usage frequently enough to make this reasonably accurate.
From Jonova on twitter:
Joanne Nova @JoanneNova
Apologies. Teething problems after big site move. Restored 100k comments and getting mammoth traffic logs. Site down, but will be ok soon. J
But the hosts lawyers say that their site has no such page as “account suspended” How can a server technical glitch generate a page response that does not exist?
I just tried to log in and go that account suspended page.
Screenshot of tweet from JoanneNova, hopefully html tags allowed here
I too am puzzled as to how a page that is clearly graphic headed with Account Suspended comes up with the obviously intentional and crafted “This Account Has Been Suspended” if it does not exist in the host’s system. A 404 Not Found? Yes. But not a constructed page. It had to come from SOMEWHERE…..
If it ain’t Softlayer’s, and it ain’t Jo’s….. Some kind and benevolent hacker donated it??
I guess html is not allowed. http://i.imgur.com/YXrKT.jpg
Puzzling or not, JoanneNova twitter account unless hacked has posted the tweet screencapped and visible at the above link.
Not everything is a conspiracy.
REPLY: Might help you to read the updates before you wasted time with this, Anthony