Web site can't be seen by my client
Yes, I know this is going to sound vague (sorry).
I am a web site designer. I built a site for a client in another state a couple of years ago. MOST of the time she can see the site no trouble at all. But there have now been two occasions on which she has been unable to see the site at all.
Both times, something had been done with her hosting. The last time, three days ago, it was as simple as the password for her cPanel was changed.
The trouble is that I can see her site, she can see the site when she goes down the road to her friend's place, and everyone I asked via Facebook can see the site. It is just her that gets no response when she tries to go to her web site. I think it is a time-out situation, but with communications being mainly by email it is hard to diagnose.
She has turned her computer off and on, and cleared the cache. She has turned her modem off and on. I am not sure what else to advise her to do.
Also, when she uses another computer at home (same modem) she doesn't get the site coming up there either.
I am almost at the stage of asking for technical details of her modem so I can try to work out how to reset it, but I really don't want to have to try to fix it if it stuffs up, especially since she is in another state and has very little technical help nearby.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what can be done? The last time it did this, it eventually came OK "by itself". Which is no help, as it still took 2 weeks.
I am a web site designer. I built a site for a client in another state a couple of years ago. MOST of the time she can see the site no trouble at all. But there have now been two occasions on which she has been unable to see the site at all.
Both times, something had been done with her hosting. The last time, three days ago, it was as simple as the password for her cPanel was changed.
The trouble is that I can see her site, she can see the site when she goes down the road to her friend's place, and everyone I asked via Facebook can see the site. It is just her that gets no response when she tries to go to her web site. I think it is a time-out situation, but with communications being mainly by email it is hard to diagnose.
She has turned her computer off and on, and cleared the cache. She has turned her modem off and on. I am not sure what else to advise her to do.
Also, when she uses another computer at home (same modem) she doesn't get the site coming up there either.
I am almost at the stage of asking for technical details of her modem so I can try to work out how to reset it, but I really don't want to have to try to fix it if it stuffs up, especially since she is in another state and has very little technical help nearby.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what can be done? The last time it did this, it eventually came OK "by itself". Which is no help, as it still took 2 weeks.
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If that is the case have her try and access the site though another web browser like google chrome or firefox. Is she able to see the site?
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OK, all is resolved. It turns out the web hosting company had blocked her IP address because they claimed there were 5 failed attempts to access her email. The strange part was that the initial failure happened within minutes of them changing the cPanel password. And yes, there were several failed attempts AFTER that from her IP, because she was trying to download her emails.
Anyway, it is all sorted now.
I am not sure what to do about awarding points, so I will try to award equally to all of you who sent in a possible solution, even though none of them actually resolved the problem.
Thank you all again for your help!
Anyway, it is all sorted now.
I am not sure what to do about awarding points, so I will try to award equally to all of you who sent in a possible solution, even though none of them actually resolved the problem.
Thank you all again for your help!
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The ipconfig flush and restore said they were successful, but she still can't see the site.
I have got her to access her site via a proxy server while I write to the web hosting company.