Bitcoin Market Access Issues

[InterArmaEnimSil]

I really love the idea behind BitcoinMarket, being an active commodity investor myself.  However, the site seems to be always, or nearly so, unreachable.  I seem to recall a post stating that it was on someone's home machine (and thus probably piped through a residential line)...could this be the source of the issues?  Whoever runs the site, I would be glad to collaborate with you (Computer Science researcher here, so I can at least know what I'm talking about) if you would like some assistance devising ways to increase uptime, reachability, or system automation.

[theymos]

You must use HTTPS. Connections to port 80 are dropped. I think this is the source of most peoples' problems -- BitCoin Market is almost always up for me.

https://www.bitcoinmarket.com/

[InterArmaEnimSil]

Why is 80 not forwarded to 443?

[dwdollar]

My ISP blocks 80.  Besides that, I don't have many complaints about them.  Bandwidth hasn't been a limiting factor yet.

There are some security issues I have with hosting elsewhere.  I don't want to rush into anything.

[LZ]

What happened today?

[dwdollar]

What happened today?

I'm not sure yet, but it's back up and functioning now.