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Indiana - received Thursday.
Am I reading that right? 250K in June, and we are only halfway through the month?!?!?!?
I'm guessing PR comes after they're done with pleasantspringswater.com. Get all the info up, apply a theme to the site to make it look more professional, then PR IMO.
You're welcome... I just got a big contract with my side business and my funds have cleared. Time to add to my position!
It will change back eventually. Your DNS records have to update, which can take up to 24 hours.
You can make the change happen manually on a PC by going to the command prompt and typing ipconfig /flushdns
Not to be a Debbie-Downer, but doesn't EXPU have to inform investors that they will be using social media to disclose material information under regulation FD? I don't recall EXPU doing that yet.
There's been so many scams with social media and online postings around this stock that I'm wearisome about any info not in a PR.
It was great. I think I mentioned before that it's what you don't taste that stands out. I've always lived on tap water, so the difference stood out to me. That is what's so frustrating about all the silence and the website being down, etc. The product is miles ahead of the management at this point.
I can definitively say I received the case of four bottles I ordered back in March on May 15. In fact, I provided the tracking number and a picture once the bottles arrived. I am by no means one of Alf's "insiders" or what-have-you's, as I have never received a communication directly from Alf or RR. I'm just a guy who ordered water (order #171 I believe).
I would if I could. I hate that you guys are in this position. Just know anyone who has been in PennyLand long enough has been where you guys are. Learn from it and use the experience on your next play.
Let me preface this post stating I have no dog in this race. I have never held any shares in OPMG, nor do I plan on investing in this stock. I was approached by GCRC to look into the issue with the websites being down. I have no personal relationship GCRC, he merely saw me post concerning technical issues with a website on a different board here on iHub, and asked if I would look into this.
I am Network Administrator with certifications from both Microsoft and CompTIA. I develop and maintain websites as a side business, and am very familiar with website protocol and design.
The following is what I found concerning OPMG's website (Please note that I may oversimplify in some cases to make what I found easier to understand. If you are more technically inclined and have questions about my findings, please ask):
With any domain, you have a few components - the url, the server hosting the site, and the DNS. The url is what we type in to get to a website (optionsmedia.com), the server hosting the site is an IP (207.150.204.40), and DNS is the service that tells your computer what server IP address to look at to get the url you typed in. DNS is complicated and often not understood. DNS is a tiered system, with Master-Level DNS servers, Reciprocating Servers, ISP Servers, all the way down to the local computer that has it's own DNS settings.
I go through all of that because optionsmedia.com is one big convoluted mess. First, let me address email, because that is the easiest part: their MX record for email points to google mail servers, meaning that they should still be receiving emails. The easiest way to know if your email is getting through is if you send one and don't receive anything back (like a message from postmater@ or mail-daemon@). 99% of the time that's a pretty good indication that the email got to where it was supposed to go. If you are receiving bounce-back messages from google servers, that's a good indication that they have shut down their google accounts.
The WHOIS database lists the registration info for domains. Optionsmedia.com expires on 10-7-13 and was last updated on 10-9-12. I can't tell what change was made at that time, but typically it is the Domain Servers. That's where things get weird. Their Domain servers are using noip.com, which is a service that allows you to host a website on your server without paying for a static IP. The service runs on your computer and updates the DNS servers if your ISP changes your IP address. This allows your website to stay up with limited downtime. This type of service is not recommended for websites and falls outside of industry best-practices.
The next step is to look at the IP address that the noip.com servers are pointing you to for the optionsmedia.com webpage, which came out to be 207.150.204.40. Enter more oddities. That IP address is owned by Hostway.com, which is a web hosting company. They bought out Affinity Internet in Ft. Lauderdale FL a few years back, which originally owned the IP address. Because it's a web hosting company, that would suggest that optionsmedia.com was a client of hostway.com and hosting their site with them. However, optionsmedia.com is the only website at that IP address, which is something you would almost never see from a hosting company. What's even more curious is that the ip address doesn't respond to ping requests, which a hosting server would almost always do.
That is everything I can prove factually. Below is my best guess as to what is going on:
Most likely hostway.com has leased a range of IP addresses to an Internet service provider, and 207.150.204.40 is the one given to Options Media by said ISP. Options Media has in turn put a server up at their facility to host their own webpage. Since that IP address is dead (no website and no ping) Chances are the server was taken offline. The biggest confirmation that things are shut down is the email reply. You're basically talking about a premium gmail account that they are using. If that's down, then they've either cancelled their email accounts or failed to pay google.
I'd be happy to answer any questions.
It's going to be terribly difficult to fail with a product this good!
I would say yes. Nothing overbearing, but very refreshing taste. Again, with my mind being used to tap water, the thing that stands out to me is the missing flavor of the chlorine, fluoride, etc.
I've just finished off my first glass of water, and all I can say is amazing! It's not what you taste, it's what you don't. Growing up a city kid, I've always drank tap water. You don't realize what you grow accustomed to taste wise until you drink something as pure as PS. I hate to think of what I've been pouring into my body all these years. PS just made a lifelong customer!
Man oh man, there must be an illness floating through this board, because I was thinking the same thing.
Maybe someone on the board could smuggle a case to you overseas.
I will note that while my order of Glass bottles arrived, my PET did not. As PET was offered much later, I'm not surprised, but I am curious if anyone has received a PET order yet.
Just got a call from my wife. UPS has delivered!!!
Pleasant Springs Water waiting for me at home!
I'm very familiar with the process, as I'm a Network Admin by day and a Web Developer by Night. I'm also very familiar with Network Solutions, as I have 5 or 6 companies that I work with that use them for their Domain hosting. With someone checking the WhoIs Database, it looks like EXPU may have just changed providers, and either have not set the A record for DNS or are also moving their website hosting over and the site is not quite ready.
The only reason I spoke up on the issue to begin with is people thinking that a major website update was coming when in fact it's probably not is un-productive for both them and the share price.
If you would like to further discuss this and your Network Solution SPAM email, feel free to PM me as I'm always up for geek-speak, but the important thing for investors to understand is A) this doesn't mean EXPU has fallen of the face of the earth and B)this doesn't mean a major site update is coming, although it is possible.
The site is not the issue. It is DNS.
DNS is what changes the url (pleasantsprings.com) into an IP address.
The reason some people can see it and others can't is because some people's computers are looking at one set of DNS information and others are seeing something else. DNS is a multi-tier system that can take up to 24 hours update across the world. It has to update on the hosting level, then with all the other hosting and DNS companies in the world, then your local DNS server, then your comptuer. When a company makes a significant change to their DNS (Or something goes wrong with DNS) You get these instances where some people see one thing and others see something else.
If some users are seeing the Network Solutions Under Construction page, they have either moved their Domain information to a new company, or someone was playing in the DNS settings and hit the wrong thing. (unless they wanted the site down)
I use Network Solutions for many of the pages I administer. It's a good, legitimate service, but there is one setting in there that can easily be hit and make this sort of thing happen.
It's impossible for one to be related to the other, unless you have modified your tcp/ip stack to send your email address with all your Internet traffic. (Or you have a virus on your computer that is snooping your traffic)
The website is built on Wordpress, which means you don't take the site down to update. It is updatable dynamically. Network Solutions Under Construction page points to a DNS issue with the hosting. Either moving the site or playing with DNS.
Mine is set to arrive between noon and 4pm according to UPS. I will post pics and impressions of water when it arrives.
Pretty typical with UPS My Choice. There is always a date given based on when the Tracking number was generated which is almost always incorrect.
I would imagine so. My delivery is estimated between 11am-3pm Tomorrow.
The tracking information has come directly from UPS. Those signed up for UPS My Choice receive emails concerning shipments to their address, which includes the tracking number.
I am signed up for UPS My Choice, which alerts me whenever a UPS delivery is scheduled to my address. The tracking number was in that email from UPS.
I agree... patience has made me profitable thus far. But I'm like a kid in candy store waiting for the hammer to drop.
Boy we could use a PR...
Last I checked, no. I received the tracking number directly from UPS through UPS MyChoice.
I had two. #171 and #389.
My typical UPS delivery is in the late afternoon, so there's a chance others may have the privilege before me. Wednesday can't come soon enough!
I didn't receive the tracking number from EXPU. I use UPS My Choice alerts. I get an email whenever a tracking number is put into the UPS system with delivery scheduled at my address. Helps me keep track of my shipments.
Correct. I put the email up so that we didn't have another day of people on the boards speculating as to whether water was actually shipping. EXPU has done their part, waiting on UPS to pick up the orders. The tracking number merely verifies that EXPU has paid for shipping and it tells us who they are shipping with.
The estimated delivery dates on those UPS My Choice alerts are almost never accurate. It's updated once UPS has the package in hand.
Looking forward to an exciting week of trading.
Did we get any type of shipping confirmation beyond the picture of the opened box of bottles?
Is this crash as factual as your statements on April 11, which state water had "shipped, been delivered, and tasted great!"?
Would you be willing to post those emails?
Is it just my browser, or did all of the new pics from this weekend disappear off the website?
Just picked up a 24 pack of water. Order #389 for those keeping score at home.