What if the broswer shows "calendar not found" when I am using the correct URL? |
Rest assured we have not deleted it, unless you have not updated it at all for at least 2 years. And we have multiple backups of every calendar. But, if your browser suddenly reports "the requested calendar was not found" or "page not found," here are 6 ways to get back your calendar:
Sometimes, particularly the 4 hours between 8 a.m. and noon, Eastern Time in the United States, the free servers can get very busy, which can cause delays and timeouts. If you cannot tolerate this, the best solution is to move your calendar to the Premium Server, which has 99% less traffic. You can move your calendar by using the Order Form, after consulting the Price Information (although the price information is also shown on the subsequent order forms).
Sometimes, particularly the 4 hours between 8 a.m. and noon, Eastern Time in the United States, the free servers can get very busy, which can cause delays and timeouts. If you cannot tolerate this, the best solution is to move your calendar to the Premium Server, which has 99% less traffic.
In addition, by November 2005 we will have migrated to an entirely new system, using the program Calcium on Unix servers at a new web host. This system will be much faster than our current setup. The transition to Calcium will be transparent to calendar users, and all existing data will be transferred. The calendars will look almost exactly the same (except better), and the menus will be much the same but offer additional functions.
We have had various approaches to domain names. We have settled on using my.calendars.net for the basic free calendars, so the main path to your calendar is http://my.calendars.net/nameofcalendar.
The name of your calendar is up to 16 characters and has no spaces or punctuation. It is the last part of your calendar's web address (like http://my.calendars.net/nameofcalendar).
Note: There is no "www" at the start of my.calendars.net. Since so many people add the "www" anyway, we have set up one of our servers to accept www.my.calendars.net, but this will not be the fastest server available and may become congested.
Earlier, we had used www.calsnet.net/nameofcalendar, which will still work for most people.
Here is the key: Many ISPs now will only connect requests if the DNS path is matched by the reverse DNS path. So the URL most likely to work to get to your free calendar is http://my.calendars.net/nameofcalendar, because all of the IP addresses assigned to my.calendars.net are reverse mapped back to my.calendars.net. The www.calsnet.net domain name is actually an alias for my.calendars.net. So it will work for some people but not all, depending upon their ISPs.
In any event, if your calendar suddenly says it is not found, try:
http://my.calendars.net/nameofcalendar
http://www.calsnet.net/nameofcalendar
http://207.202.158.73/nameofcalendar
http://207.202.158.98/nameofcalendar
http://207.202.158.105/nameofcalendar
http://207.202.158.106/nameofcalendar
http://207.202.158.107/nameofcalendar
http://207.202.158.114/nameofcalendar
http://207.202.158.115/nameofcalendar
http://207.202.158.116/nameofcalendar