Metaquotes site and server down 24 hours

Hi all,

I'm using MT5 as a technical analysis platform and then I'm using Saxobank's system for order execution.
To get live feeds into MT5 I'm using a demo account from metaquotes.
Yesterday it broke down totally down... even the metaquotes sites are all down.
As a tryout to get another MT5 demo I signed up on IBFX but even their installation process tries to get the MT5 from Metaquotes sites.

I'm a little confused because for a system like this to go down a few hours is in fact unacceptable (acceptable can be when there is power failure within a network) and now its been down for more than 24 hours without any kind of sound from Metaquotes.
Any who knows whats going on.... ?? and any who knows which broker to use for MT5 demo account which has the MT5 program on their local servers ?

Regards from Denmark

I had been considering posting the same thing. I'm in the USA and have a mt5 demo thru metaquotes themselves and I'm down too. So is metaquotes.net, mql4.com, and mql5.com etc. It would be VERY DISTURBING to the forex world if they have gone under. I think that this is not the case, but I'm not for sure. I'm speculating that they have had the misfortune of a hacker attack or something similar, but who knows for sure. Just my own thoughts. I hope what ever their problem is, they get it fixed fast and they are not gone for good. Right now, I'm concerned though.
Does anybody here have any connections to anyone inside metaquotes? If so, would you mind contacting your connection and ask politely what is up? I'm sure there are many traders wondering what is going on.
All info would be greatly appreciated!

Peace,
SatchFan

Yea initially I thought I was the only one having this problem. Being unable to backtest on both mt4 and mt5 bots.

Hope they get back up soon, maybe they're doing a huge maintenance across all their servers.

Just opened account at Alpari RU, terminal successfully installed and has realtime quotes.

I can confirm, its down in Norway as well, last 24h.



Hope they solve their problems soon. Looks like its affecting more than just demo accounts...

I can can confirm this here in Egypt too ....

I've checked the whois: their main hosting seems to be provided by aihs.net, which is also out (AIHS's DNS is out, whereas MQL5's DNS is fine but routing seems to fail at a router in AIHS's address range). Aihs appears to be based in Germany but their technical contact is a Russian name.

Normally, I wouldn't have been too worried but I've notice their backup MX mail server is also down (mail2.mql5.com), which is unfortunately on a different provider in the US (Serverpath).

This it starting to look like bad news. If it isn't a technical fault, I'll be more than slightly irritated as I've spent about 200 hours preparing for the MQL5 championship.

metaquotes.net is now up. but seems related links & the other sites mentioned still aren't, though.

Failure by the provider, they do everything to remove them as soon as possible. We look forward to.

The mql4.com and mql5.com, sites are down too.
Hope they get back online soon because it's a pain to access each page through the google cache...

Picked this reply from another forum "metaquotes.net ( http://www.metaquotes.net/en ) is up, the rest of sites related to metatrader (and their mt5 data feed) is still not. According to some info it is a provider failure and they are working on solving the issue. So much is known for now".

by MetaQuotes Software Corp Aug. 31st, 2011 at 12:57 PM

Problems with our ISP
For an indefinite period will be problems with sites and servers, the company MetaQuotes Software Corp - technical failure at the ISP. Currently, efforts are being made to resolve this issue. On all questions address the alternative boxes of our staff or through this blog. We apologize for the inconvenience.

http://metaquotes-life.livejournal.com/56502.html

I'm totally baffled :|.. systems that are critical have at least one backup line from another ISP running socalled failover system..

Regards from Denmark

Reliability and redundancy (failover) aren't concepts that I associate with Metaquotes. I think most of us realize that this situation was largely preventable by most prudent companies.

They are at the moment up and running again.
Lets hope they learned something

Happy trading people

Is "http://history.metaquotes.net" still down for everyone?

still down, but remember the few last weeks (August) and the often disconnect server. They (metaquotes ru forum) already blamed their ISP: wonder if its the only one problem ? Its easy to blame somebody else, but "Russian" relationship is so often rough.

Both MQL4 and MQL5 still down for me. Hard to remember exactly, but I think it is more than 48 hours now.

Thats strange... Yesterday evening GMT+1 I was able to to reconnect.
Its right now running as it should from Denmark.
Obviously there must be routing problem also.
A DNS global change takes also at least 24 hours as far as i remember but lets see..

just to let me know, i've started the terminal, and it works: server europ is fully active, the others seems to be weak. Forums are still down.