Advertlets Will Be Down for Emergency Maintenance This Saturday 9PM

Advertlets will be performing emergency maintenance this Saturday (11/10/08) from 9PM onwards to pre-emptively replace a hard disk that is on the verge of a crash. While the maintenance may take a few hours, this is a necessary step to ensure data integrity for items such as your personal details & earnings as well as to ensure that loading speed of ads is optimal in future.

Your blog will load as usual during that period, however, during the maintenance period default ads may be shown or the ads may not display. Also, during that period you may not be able to login to Advertlets.com or access the site. We expect that maintenance will be complete by midnight to 2AM on Sunday (12/10/2008), and there should be no loss of data as we will be replacing the hard disk before it crashes, and making backups just in case. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.

Advertlets.com : Service Update

Service has been restored in the following areas as reported by our members:

Genting, MY (ISP: TM Net)
Johor, MY (ISP: TM Net)
Kuala Terengganu, MY (ISP: TM Net)
Damansara, MY (ISP: TM Net)
Indonesia (ISP: PT Telkom)
Singapore (ISP:maxonline.com.sg)

For Malaysian Users: We have been informed that Jaring has picked up the DNS transfer and TM Net should follow shortly with the new DNS settings for all areas.

So far 8,000 unique users from Malaysia have been able to see the site/ads without issue since midnight yesterday, and 1,766 unique users from Singapore. We are doing everything we can to restore service to all.

Advertlets.com - Domain Transfer Successful

Please be advised that the domain transfer has been successful. If you do not still do not see ads appearing as they should, or the main www.advertlets.com website not displaying, do follow the instructions below.

We will update further on this when we have fully resolved the issue.

Temporary Fix For Domain Name Issue #2

For Windows users:

Press Start
Click "Run"
Type "cmd"
A DOS prompt will appear.
Type ipconfig /flushdns
This will flush the DNS resolver cache to reflect the new DNS settings.

Advertlets.com - Partial Service Available In Certain Areas

Hi, So far some readers from Klang, Malaysia and Kuching, East Malaysia have reported that their service is back to normal. Visitors from Singapore and KL, Malaysia are still facing issues. Please know that we are working on this and are continuing to fix the problems to fully resolve this issue.

Advertlets.com Domain Issue Partially Resolved

Hi, as some of you are aware of we are facing an issue with our domain name. The issue has now been partially resolved. If the error has been resolved (or you are still facing the error) - please leave a comment (with your country and area if possible), so we know which areas are not facing the problem anymore.

Please also see: http://www.advertlets.com/weblog/2008/01/05/advertletscom-domain-issue-partially-resolved/

Temporary Fix for Advertlets.com Domain Issue

Hi, we are aware of the current issue regarding the domain name, and we have already taken action to resolve the problem. However, DNS changes take time to propogate. Should you wish to have immediate access to the Advertlets.com website and widgets on your computer, you can use the following instructions to resolve the domain successfully. Please note that other visitors to your blog may not have the same results. DNS changes come into affect at different times on different international locations.

You can edit your hosts file:
Open up notepad.
Open this file: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (no file extension).
Add this line in after other lines: 202.46.116.100 advertlets.com

We are aware this is a temporary fix and the permanent solution as well as full service will be back online shortly at www.advertlets.com