Wild Horizons Highland Fling - Entry Update

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Fi

Chocolate Foot
Dear All

Our intention was to open entries to the 2009 Highland Fling at 4.00pm today. Unfortunately the massive volume of traffic to the site at that time caused the server to crash and thus our website and online entry system became unavailable.

Our website hosting company is one of Australia's largest but, despite us contacting them a fortnight ago to check that the server would cope with the increased volume on this day and being assured that it would be fine, we find ourselves in this situation. Rest assured we are all working to resolve this situation including working with our web developer to see what short term option we might be able to offer.

In the meantime, please let us reassure you that nobody has entered the 2009 Highland Fling yet, so you have not missed out on an entry!

When entries are open, you will notice that we have a new online entry system. First you will register and you will be sent an email to activate your account. Note that each entrant must have their own unique email address to register – so if you share an email address with another entrant, you will need to visit a free webmail provider to get your own email address! This is necessary to keep the system secure. Once you have logged in, you will be able to enter the event, and can log in at any time afterwards to edit, transfer or cancel your entry.

We know many, many hundreds were poised at 4pm today ready to enter the Fling. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this has caused and will continue working here until the problem is resolved. Please don't email or phone us to ask for an update – there are too many already for us to respond to.

We’ll email our database immediately and update this thread as soon as entries are enabled.

Thanks for your patience.

Cheers

Fi
 
EzyLee

EzyLee

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Thanks for the update.

I just hope that the people who did the right thing and reminded themselves to get their entries in on opening day don't miss out.
 
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kermit

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still trying but no working yet . Must have been a lot of people trying to enter , hope I get in
 
Fi

Fi

Chocolate Foot
Fi said:
In the meantime, please let us reassure you that nobody has entered the 2009 Highland Fling yet, so you have not missed out on an entry!
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Fi said:
We’ll email our database immediately and update this thread as soon as entries are enabled.
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Fi said:
Thanks for your patience.
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Just to reiterate the above ... and confirm that we are still experiencing problems. I would suggest you save yourselves the trouble of continually checking our site, subscribe to this thread and once we're up and running, I'll post again!

:)
 
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kermit

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I might have to go for a training ride while I wait , then again beer oçlock soon & sit in front of the net
 
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dangersean

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I was one of the lucky nobmobber's who got online and came away with an entry last night. Had just returned home from a night ride and a few beers when I thought i'd jump on and see how the site was going. Got online, registered, confirmed and bought entry. Have receipt of purchase email too.
That was at 11.50pm. By 12.05am when another mate tried, the site was down again... Guess I just got lucky this time......
On the plus side, once the WH site is running smoothly again, it is well laid out and easy to use. I must commend WH on that!
cheers,
S.
 
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Emu1

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No that will be 1497, two others got on at the same time as Dangersean.

I was the unliucky one that tried at 11.55pm and got the "come back at 10am page"
 
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