A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

IAM nearly back online

With the exception of one or two functions, IAM is approaching being back online. If you’d like to use it now, before DNS updates, you can add the following to your hosts file (please only do this if you understand what you’re doing):

38.99.130.173 iam.bmezine.com

The only function that I know is not working is that my mime encoding is offline so you can’t currently email entries with pictures to yourself. Everything else appears to be working. If you find other stuff that’s offline, please send it to me at [email protected].

Comments

26 responses to “IAM nearly back online”

  1. Chuc0lat Avatar

    Oh good just before the nervous tick and general air of needing meds upped set in.

    Thanks for the update Shannon

  2. badur Avatar

    good to be back!

  3. B Avatar

    I agree 110% with #1. =P

  4. Christen Avatar

    Oh my! This is good news.
    I was about to start a support group

  5. Sam Avatar

    It’s still not working for me. Also for another IAM user in the states. Strange.

  6. Shannon Larratt Avatar

    It won’t work right now unless you manually update your hosts file (and perhaps force a reload) — otherwise you’ll have to wait for DNS to update.

  7. MikeD Avatar
    MikeD

    Do you have an approximate time in how much longer that will be? I don’t know how to do the host thing. Thanks Shannon.

  8. Shannon Larratt Avatar

    more info on hosts files

    I sent off the DNS update request about an hour ago, and have been trying to reach them on the phone to get a confirmation.

  9. AshleyM Avatar

    Welcome back IAM; we missed you!

  10. Southern Belle Avatar

    Oh…It will be back soon. Thank – uh…not god – Shannon I suppose. I can’t wait. There has been a little empty feeling in my heart while it’s been down 😛

  11. sheldo Avatar

    yay!!! aw, i missed it!

  12. RealFolkBlues Avatar
    RealFolkBlues

    I was about to sign up for Christen’s support group too… *stands* Hi, I’m John, and I’m an IAMaholic…

  13. LotN Avatar

    Experience engine is unable to contact the server. Otherwise, yay!…

  14. Shannon Larratt Avatar

    DNS change is in place now, so it’s just a matter of it propagating.

    LotN – It’ll be waiting for DNS as well.

  15. Sam Avatar

    It’s working now.

  16. Ania Avatar

    It still doesn’t work for me but Exp. Engine does and that’s great!

    Thanks for all the hard work!

  17. Chuc0lat Avatar

    Its coming and going, I got in for like a millisecond and now its gone 🙁

  18. spunky_nikki Avatar

    I’m having withdrawals….

  19. Casey Avatar

    Back on for me! Has been pretty solid for almost an hour.

  20. Blake Avatar

    Should we remove the address from our host file once everything is in proper working order or does it matter?

  21. Psyx Avatar

    I can see IAM pages, but the login page is still coming up with the ‘iam is moving to another server’ thing.

  22. Southern Belle Avatar

    yeah. still not working here. meh. I guess patience is a virtue.

  23. spunky_nikki Avatar

    Yay! Finally IAM is back for me.

  24. Toothpaste Avatar

    omg, i love you shannon.
    i srsly love iam.
    haha, andi love sending you fan mail via snail mail.

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