A couple of useful websites

[DaveLister]

After the Forum outage on Sunday I thought I would pass these on.

The first is https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ . You type in the website address of your favourite forum 😉 and they'll check for you and tell you whether or not the site is working. It's a quick way of finding out if the problem is just you. They also provide an updated list of offline servers as well as regularly checking the health of a number of top websites i.e. facebook, gmail, etc.

The second is https://haveibeenpwned.com/ . With this one you enter your email address and it will tell you if it has been part of a declared data breach ( in which case it's a good idea to change your password ). Of course, when you check it again later the same data breach will come up so you'll have to remember that you've already dealt with it.

Hope they'll be of some use to you folks.

 

[NormanH]

Nice ones thanks

[Judith]

I already had the pawned one, but not the other. Useful, will add them to my bookmarks

[cajal]

I use Firefox and following a connection 'timeout' it will report to your screen if a site you are attempting to access is operational. It checks and reports on your computer's capability to access the internet, the location and connection status you have with the server you are being routed through, and the operational status of the site you are attempting to access.