# Help accessing a website **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 31, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-accessing-a-website/827003 "2018-12-31T21:21:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-accessing-a-website/827003/1 "2018-12-31T21:21:31Z")
Can anyone out there lend me a hand and check to see if the [Pittsburgh Post Gazette](http://www.post-gazette.com/) website is up? I’ve been trying all day long to access the site, on my laptop and on my phone, and I’m just not able. Tried it with and without WiFi. Tried clearing my cache. Tried restarting the router. ---
**Author:** ![Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-accessing-a-website/827003/2 "2018-12-31T21:23:57Z")
Mods, please move to MPSIMS. I misposted. Sorry. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-accessing-a-website/827003/3 "2018-12-31T22:28:32Z")
This site is a good place to go when a question like yours comes up: > **[Helps you find whether the website you are trying to browse is down or not....](https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/)** > > Is It Down Right Now? Website Down or Not? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-accessing-a-website/827003/4 "2018-12-31T22:30:46Z")
Works here. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-accessing-a-website/827003/5 "2019-01-01T00:39:34Z")
Works here to a degree although they may now be a subscription site and I didn’t bother looking at more than the front page. ---
**Author:** ![Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-accessing-a-website/827003/6 "2019-01-01T05:36:42Z")
Thanks everyone. I finally hid my IP and got on the site. Maybe they don’t allow connections from overseas anymore? ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-accessing-a-website/827003/7 "2019-01-01T06:42:39Z")
> [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](#): > > Thanks everyone. I finally hid my IP and got on the site. Maybe they don’t allow connections from overseas anymore? Yep, I just changed my VPN to Sweden and Malaysia and the site is blocked. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-accessing-a-website/827003/8 "2019-01-01T14:31:17Z")
The PPG, as they have cut back on print editions and gone more heavily into online subscriptions, has done some odd stuff to their website. I could see them seeing “yinzers” out of the country as a “needed revenue source”. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-accessing-a-website/827003/9 "2019-01-01T19:25:38Z")
Works for me, I clicked through to an article with no problem and no paywall. I’m using an iPhone 8 Plus.