I know this is somewhat off-topic, but since it is an avenue for many indie-rpg writers to publish and since this is the specific Forge forum where I usually post, I thought I might post my query here. I have been unable to access the RPGNOW website and my latest attempts seem to take me to a web hosting company page. I am assuming that this is just a temporary glitch and that RPGNOW will be back up and running shortly, but if not this would be cause for concern. There were a handful of PDF games that I was planning to order this weekend. . . alas!
Glenn
Just FYI, here's a message from the front page of the site (http://www.rpgnow.com).
"Sorry for the downtime, but our computers were turned off due to a hacker who abused our outbound UDP. Anyway, we've now got to restore from backups to a new hard drive. Things will be a bit slow so forgive us. NOTE: The secure checkout with credit card is currently DOWN. Please wait till Monday to buy anything."
And just when our new Distribution (http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=2239&Forge_forum) and POD Printing (http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=2238&Forge_forum) service products went live on the site! Rats!
Hopefully everything will be fixed and the secure checkout back up to speed by tomorrow.
Thanks for the update. I actually discovered their message just a little while ago but did not want to respond to my own post (people tend to frown upon me when I talk to myself let alone type to myself. . . lol). I had a feeling that it was a minor glitch of some sort but I am glad that things seem to be back up and running again. Scary to think that someone would want to hack an innocent little rpg site. Gasp!
Glenn