INFO Image Host Discussion

I'm having an issue with pixhost images not loading in, on both mobile and desktop.

 

Pixhost posted the following message:

The TL;DR version:
For whatever reason, Pixhost's DNS provider has disabled lookup for their primary domain.

It might be a temporary glitch that clears up in a day, but it's more likely a longer term problem - assuming it gets resolved at all. The server is up and works just fine, but you'd have to use the IP address instead of the name. The temporary(?) solution is to use their alternate domain name.

The issue for Phun is all the links in the database are hard-coded to pixhost.to, which means that 10's? 100's? of thousands of embedded links need to be updated to pixhost.cc by an automated process (if it comes to that). Hopefully Pixhost can regain control of their domain, but I recommend Phun's Tech Devs make a contingency plan in the meantime.

 

I don't know anything about the structure of the Phun database, but it's likely technically possible. For instance, if it's on a SQL server the search and replace statement is probably easy to write. But it could bring the database to its knees, especially if attempted in one fell swoop. It's something the DBA would/should do (database administrator).

And yes, I am a webdev . But not a DBA.

 

Pixhost is reporting it has been fixed now and no modifications or changes should be needed.
Details here: https://pixhost.to/update.html