WheresGeorge.com is (down) BACK!

I tried to check my bills yesterday at WheresGeorge.com. Try as I might, the sight just wouldn’t load. I gave up and moved on…

This morning, I tried again, and the site was still not available. Strange, it just disappeared.

So where do you turn; Google, of course. I typed in “what happened to wheresgeorge” in the search window in Safari. I was a bit surprised to find I wasn’t the only one asking the question.

Here are the top hits for that search. The real answer seems to be found on the WheresGeorge forums. I’ve never really looked around there, but they are working fine. Hank (the founder of WheresGeorge) has made a few posts. He seems to think the site is swamped because of a recent Yahoo article. But there have been “news” stories before, so it isn’t quite certain this is the source of the extra traffic.

In any event, Hank posted a link to an alternate site which does seem to be working fine. Temporarily use: WhereGeorge.us.

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Quick update:  WheresGeorge.com is back since sometime yesterday.  However, entering bills and some operations seem “slow”.  Database updates seem the same as always.  For now the “surge” must be over, and things are getting back to normal.