Unless you're hosting, I still say it's the site provider.

When you don't change code, and stuff happens, blame "I.T." first. They have to patch and pay attention to their end, so you don't suffer on your end.

Thanx! All clear now!

Good for you.

Me? I'l wait till I get he whole book and re-read it as a whole a few times.

Altho, I did learn one thing about the JB books. I have to slow down and actually pay attention, because I missed details that actually incorporate to his endgasm.

Rereading fool moon right now.

Try living thru those 20 years as your favorite author takes a vacation for six years after a cliffhanger.

Well Jim Butcher is way more consistant with the Dresden Files than Stephen King was with the Dark Tower.
JB's books are coming out yearly, Stephen King's Dark Tower was spread across his whole career.

Huh?

Dark tower came in  halfway thru his career and had a long hiatus (I think it was when he went nuts after his incident with the drunk driver) . He then powered out the rest of the story fairly quickly, and closed it with a really stupid ending.

Actually, I don't envy them.

I was furious about the length of time it took For Stephen King to actually finish the little cliffhanger ending of "The Waste Lands". It would be far worse to have to wait to get chapters that could change from JB.

HUH?

Get a new ISP.

The only way you'd be having issues is if the board switched to a new host in which case 24-48 hours all the issues would be cleared up. Of course, Most folks running web sites set up the redirect on the old site so nobody notices down time (no matter which domain you type in, the old would redirect to the new IP).

More likely the issue is one of the major players having problems with their service, Quest was always bothersome in the past in dropping traffic.

Anyway, the guy should of known better, and might have a filter problem on his end (site block).

Try this to see if it's a nameserver issue - on you machine open start > type cmd and hit enter
In the black box that comes up type ping www.jim-butcher.com
see if it does anything

Then type
ping 69.89.31.150

and see if that's different

if it is, Try opening your browser and using

http://69.89.31.150/ and see if that gets you to the site.

hope that helps.

edit - no, that ip won't get you there, and I could be wrong about the server settings.

On a side note, something that could help performance problems would be to go to crystaltech.com and host there.

I use it for my site, I'm on the 36.95 premium package.