Problems accessing blogspot, wordpress...

Te servers have been down since last night (VN time) but the authoring servers are still working.

Reduced my work load a little last night - about 7 of my customers use Blogspot for their corporate activities.

I tried my HongKong, Toronto and London VPN's with the same results.

Not sure where the problem is but I wish it would get fixed. For the past three days the connection has been extremely spotty. It doesn’t appear to be any particular website, it just comes and goes. When I am connected the speed is above normal, than it just loses it, and I have to wait for it to come back up. Sometimes right away and sometimes I have to wait 3 or 4 minutes. VNPT, my ISP wasn’t any help when I talked to them this afternoon either. BTW, I just opened the worldpress sit with no problem.

Thanks for your replies.


It still hasn't worked for me in the last couple days, and even right now. But then I launched ultrareach program and I can now access blogspot pages....


Weird.......


Doesn't that mean that it's blocked in Vietnam specifically?

sofimofi no don't think it's blocked here. I can access both with out using a VPN. What error code are you getting?

Oh really? Well that's good to know that it shouldn't be banned here.


The error I'm getting is "The connection has timed out" and "The server is taking too long to respond"....

sofimofi,

You might find some answers from this link:

http://forums.cnet.com/7723-12546_102-4 … o-respond/

I heard from someone who works in Google/UK that some problems are occurring with read access because Google is applying 'selective censorship'.

If you recall Google had a rumble with China over search providing links to government prohibited links.

Rather than have Google access b;locked to a country because some poster wants to sound off against the government, they are blocking access by each subscribers blog based on where you accessing the site from.

In other words, if there is some horny guy sounding off at Ha Noi everyone can see it except people in VietNam.

It makes commercial sense, why should Google loose income because of one person getting mad at a government - using a free web site supplied by Google?

Have a look at: < http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/a … &ctx=topic >

There is a workaround, I'm not free to tell you what it is but if you consider your set-up parameters the cure becomes readily apparent.

Have you tried messing with your DNS settings?

Or try this ...

Q. Can users outside of the United States still access the service’s .com domains?
A. Yes, we allow anyone to view the .com version of a Blogger blog by typing: http://[blogname].blogspot.com/ncr – which always goes to the .com version of the blog. The “no country redirect” (ncr) will temporarily prevent Blogger from redirecting readers to the local version of the blog.

Q: How do I do this for a single post URL, and not the entire blog?
A: Place /ncr/ just after the country-specific domain to access the individual post. For instance, [blogname].blogspot.com/examplepage should be entered as [blogname].blogspot.com/ncr/examplepage. (from Google)