# Why's Poignant Guide site down? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 14, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whys-poignant-guide-site-down/81860 "2006-03-14T21:03:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![markcasio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@markcasio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markcasio)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whys-poignant-guide-site-down/81860/1 "2006-03-14T21:03:32Z")
Why’s Poignant Guide has been unavailable for at least the last couple of days. Does anyone know if that has been moved somewhere else? I’m trying [http://poignantguide.net/ruby/](http://poignantguide.net/ruby/). ---
**Author:** ![markcasio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@markcasio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markcasio)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whys-poignant-guide-site-down/81860/2 "2006-03-14T21:15:46Z")
Mark V. wrote: > Why’s Poignant Guide has been unavailable for at least the last couple > of days. Does anyone know if that has been moved somewhere else? I’m > trying [http://poignantguide.net/ruby/](http://poignantguide.net/ruby/). That’s weird… I’ve been reading the Guide in the past few days. I guess Firefox has been just showing me a locally cached version! Now that I try to reload the page, I get an error. ---
**Author:** ![markcasio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@markcasio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markcasio)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whys-poignant-guide-site-down/81860/3 "2006-03-14T21:18:50Z")
\_why’s blogs have also been down, i guess it’s a hobix problem 2006/3/14, Karl von Laudermann [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![markcasio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@markcasio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markcasio)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whys-poignant-guide-site-down/81860/4 "2006-03-14T21:40:39Z")
Mark V. wrote: > Why’s Poignant Guide has been unavailable for at least the last couple > of days. Does anyone know if that has been moved somewhere else? I’m > trying [http://poignantguide.net/ruby/](http://poignantguide.net/ruby/). I’ve been having DNS problems with his sites for the last month or so. Sometimes my DNS can resolve them, sometimes it can’t. (I’ve noticed this on at least two different ISPs.) Later, ---
**Author:** ![markcasio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@markcasio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markcasio)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whys-poignant-guide-site-down/81860/5 "2006-03-14T22:26:49Z")
Quoting Dirk M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > \_why’s blogs have also been down, i guess it’s a hobix problem As far as I can tell, it’s a general server problem. Unfortuately, this had to happen while \_why was on the road for SXSW, so there’s only so much he can do about it remotely… -mental ---
**Author:** ![markcasio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@markcasio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markcasio)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2006, 7:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whys-poignant-guide-site-down/81860/6 "2006-03-15T07:21:22Z")
if anyone is _really_ eager for the poignant guide, send me an e-mail, i’ll send you a pdf 2006/3/14, mikshir [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![markcasio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@markcasio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markcasio)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whys-poignant-guide-site-down/81860/7 "2006-03-14T22:56:30Z")
I’ve been wondering why I haven’t been able to access this in the past few days myself. Been struggling to find a mirror to no avail either. Hope it gets resolved soon.