Site depends on ajax.googleapis.com - which is down

[BigBeatNut]

I've had two evenings where it's been impossible to get a response from basschat. Not just slow, actually impossible.

The pages appear to hang when trying to load from ajax.googleapis.com, which is a site that's down ( I checked independently with http://www.isup.me/ajax.googleapis.com ).

The only reason I'm here now is that, on my PC, I've routed requests to that server elsewhere, so the pages don't hang. Otherwise, I'd have no basschat.

Is it just me suffering this problem ?

[Kiwi]

Its not just you unfortunately. The site has been slow for some people but not everyone. Ben did look into it yesterday but its not clear yet on whether what he did has worked.

[BigBeatNut]

FWIW, for me the site [b]does not work at all[/b] in chrome, it's not just very slow, I get nothing at all, just an empty, white, page.

I'm currently in on firefox.

This is on WinXP.

The ajax.googleapis.com may be a red herring, It IS down but it doesn't seem to stop firefox working.

[BigBeatNut]

This from StackOverFlow looks like it's relevant: http://superuser.com/questions/65007/files-from-ajax-googleapis-com-not-loading

Looks like if you have the files from google in your cache, the fact the google site is down doesn't affect you. One of the differences with Chrome for me is that I recently cleared the cache.

Whether this is the same problem that's affecting others, I don't know.

[Silvia Bluejay]

The site was slow for me for a while yesterday, but it never got to the point of not loading at all. (Firefox 15.0 on Win 7 Pro.)
I'll do all the pinging and checking if the site starts misbehaving here too, and let you know.

[BigBeatNut]

Thanks. Beginning to suspect, since I have chrome working fine with my MacBook pro, that I have a local issue with my PC. Particularly as it's a total failure, not just slowness.