# Straightdope.com down? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 15, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-com-down/567685 "2011-01-15T04:04:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirka_T_Bawa)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-com-down/567685/1 "2011-01-15T04:04:03Z")
I know this isn’t actually ATMB, but figured it was the best place to post this. For almost the past 24 hours, [Straightdope.com](http://Straightdope.com) has had a message saying that it is down for a database upgrade and will be back up soon. I would have expected an actual upgrade to be completed within 24 hours, so, what is actually going on? When do you expect the homepage to be back up? ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-com-down/567685/2 "2011-01-15T04:07:15Z")
There was an outage last night, but the Straightdope page has been working all day long for me. I wonder if it’s possible you’re having a browser cache problem? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-com-down/567685/3 "2011-01-15T04:14:56Z")
It only lasted about 10 minutes for me. ---
**Author:** ![Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirka_T_Bawa)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-com-down/567685/4 "2011-01-15T04:15:16Z")
Wow, that was actually it… I cleared my browser cache and it came right up! I was wondering why I didn’t see any posts about it, now I see because it was just me! 🙂 Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-com-down/567685/5 "2011-01-15T17:03:36Z")
Wasn’t just you. I came on last night and I was still getting the upgrade message. I went to another board to see if anyone said anything about it, and found a link to a thread. I clicked on it and the thread came up. Clicked on the forum link and it came up. Clicked on my bookmark and got an error message. So I surmised I needed to clear cache, and that worked. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-com-down/567685/6 "2011-01-15T19:14:29Z")
Indeed. Something happened that many of us have needed to clear out our caches to get it to work. Me too. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straightdope-com-down/567685/7 "2011-01-15T21:09:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Wasn’t just you. I came on last night and I was still getting the upgrade message. Or maybe it was this morning. So hard to tell before coffee, when I turn the computer on.