Help! Everyone can see my site but me...

Hi

I'm facing a weird problem, and I hope somebody will be able to tell me how to fix it.

It seems like everyone can see my site but me.
When I try to load the URL, I get a server time out message.
When I try to load the URL on another machine, the site loads perfectly.

I can't connect with my FTP client either

I've had the same problem once before - it seemed my ip had been blocked by the server firewall due to multiple log in attempts (I forgot my password), and the hosting company was able to fix it by unblocking my ip.

I checked with this hosting company twice, but they say my ip isn't blocked. They don't have a clue what's going on, let alone how to fix it.

I have no idea what could be the cause - I mean, one day everything worked fine, and the next day the server times out again and again.

This has been going on for a couple of days now, and it is really causing me trouble, since I can't get access to my online files.


I was wondering if anyone has an idea what might be going on, and how this whole thing can be fixed?

Greetz!
Mieke

 

Yeah, the first thing i would've looked at is the firewall.
Did you end up figuring this out.?

 

Either, this maybe a connection problem.. Call your ISP Customer Care hotline.

 

check your firewall
or if you use a proxy STOP it

 

Just quickly, two tools that can help uncover network problems are ping (type "ping hostname.com") and traceroute (type "traceroute hostname.com" or use "tracert hostname.com" if you are on Windows.)

Traceroute in particular will tell you how far your packets got before they got blocked.

 

Ask your network administrator to "White List" your IP. You most likely got banned from the server via their security application, because of too many login requests or something simple like that.

 

This usually helps me, If you are on windows xp. Open cmd and flush your dns.....


Start>Run>cmd> after the black command box opens type in ipconfig /flushdns

 

Its Firewall problem