The moot question is, 'is it down for everyone or just me?'

It is our common experience to have various kinds of error with our computers. The biggest problems according to the users are those that create frustration in them. Technically this might appear nothing but if it wastes the time of the user and user is unable to understand the problem or do something to solve it. Then the problem is huge; at least for the users if he or she is not a tech expert.

Some similar problems crop up when we are using the internet. A common error you must have had came across is error 404. Though this error is very common knowledge about it is absent in most internet surfers. You might want to open a link but if it does not open in that case the first question that strikes you is usually, “is it down for everyone or just me?” You start panicking if the website you are trying to open is very important for you. When the website is not so important in your case, you mostly do not bother. You plant to visit it some other time or you simply wipe it out from your memory. However, repeatedly you keep on asking, “is it down for everyone or just me?”  When the site you are attempting to visit is of great importance to you.

Here, in such a situation where you are unable to decide what you may do, first try relaxing and then take help of one of those many websites that tell you about the status of a website. Generally, these sites are popular on the web as web checking sites. These web checking sites would allow you to first know whether the site has its server in right condition. Knowing that you would be able to find an answer to the question “is it down for everyone or just me?” If the server is out then you are not the only sufferer and others are also at the same position. You have almost nothing to do in such a situation only you can report about the trouble to the website owner if you know their contact details. However, you get to see that the server of the particular link or site is all right, and then you might be lacking some sort of plug-in on your computer. If you find the answer to “is it down for everyone or just me?” is just you then can add the required plug-in or else try visiting the site from some other computer.