vbulletin.com down --> admin panel main page down

[Alwaysmefirst]

A few minutes ago, I could not access to my admin panel main page because it could not load vbulletin.com/version/version.gif?id=xxxxx, just because vbulletin.com was down.
Would it be possible to put the version.gif image at the bottom of the page so I can still approve members in the case vbulletin.com is down for hours (something I don't hope!).
Thanks.

Olly

[eva2000]

hmm yeah you think about..

[Alwaysmefirst]

Of course I think it is always possible that vbulletin.com can be down for several hours, like for any server.
I had 4 emails from people who asked me why they could not post and I just could not validate their registration because of this trouble. It must be very rare but when it happens, it is annoying.
I am maybe the only one who reported that problem because it happened I was trying to validate some members during this short downtime but you would get dozens of posts here if lasted longer.

Olly

[Wayne Luke]

Technically, your browser should time out on loading the graphic and finish loading the page if it can't be found or returns an error like a Domain not found.

I have had no problems accessing my control panels when I can't access the forums or site here meaning the Apache server isn't responding. These were known downtimes as well.

[Alwaysmefirst]

Wayne,

You are right when the server is totally down, but it stays like that for many minutes when the server is *almost* down before getting a blank page. Like when some advertising banners on top of the forums can't be completely loaded (so you can't see the whole page).

Olly