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Thread ID: 25009 2002-09-23 23:23:00 Webhost caching problems braindead (1685) Press F1
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82367 2002-09-23 23:23:00 I've been helping a friend design and upload a new web site using Dreamweaver over the last week .

We're getting this weird thing - when we view the site online with IE6 or NS7 we're being randomly served various versions of old non-existing pages, with occasionally the correct and updated page, by repeatedly using local 'refresh' .

We're using a standard garden-variety 56k modem and a Paradise dial-up account to upload the files via FTP to an overseas server hosted by MyHost .

This is driving me nuts . I've several times gone through the whole process of clearing out my local caches, deleting the remote files and re-uploading the site pages - but the old page ghosts remain to haunt me .

MyHost say it's Paradise's responsibility, Paradise say it's MyHost's .

I see no point contacting Paradise about this again as they haven't bothered to reply to my email query 10 days ago and they probably won't . Customer service is no longer on their list of priorities .

Has anyone come across this before? I sure would appreciate some input .

John W
braindead (1685)
82368 2002-09-24 07:46:00 It's a long shot and may not have anything to do with it, but I'll offer the advice anyway:

In IE go to Tools>Options>General>Settings and make sure the dot is in "Check for newer versions of stored pages: Every visit to the page".

Click OK all the way out and cross your fingers correctly.
Susan B (19)
82369 2002-09-24 07:59:00 Thanks Susan - been there :-)

I seems the problem is somewhere in the web host's pipeline, through a server not purging itself of old/deleted site files.

John
braindead (1685)
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