Problem uploading

[patti]

I am having a problem uploading a site of mine.
I have been able to upload using Frontpage 2003, and also the WPswitch, but
tonight NOTHING.
Everything looks fine in frontpage, and it shows up on the control panel of
my website's account, but NOT on the webspage in the browser
I have cleared out my browser....
Any suggestions?
Thanks

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

There are a couple other possibilities that could be causing problems,
neither of wich you can do anything about. A web server will often cache a
web page in order to increase performance. Sometimes, even after you load
the new file, it still has the old file in cache. The new content doesn't
get reflected simply because the web server's memory isn't releasing it's
copy of the old. Now, you can try to get it to fall out of memory by
deleting the page on the server, thus forcing it into a 404 file not found.
When the 404 occurs the web server will realize that there really isn't
anything there anymore and dump the page from the cache, enabling yout o
upload a new one. Try deleting one of the pages on the server, trying to
view it in the browser, then uploading the new one to see if that helps.

Another thing, some ISPs will actually cache web sites in order to improve
performance. AOL used to be very bad at this since they had a few routes
where their network actually connected to the internet, so to avoid
over-burdening those few connection points they attempted to cache as much
content as was possible to reduce the traffic and increase performance. If
the ISP is caching the old pages, just have to wait until they refresh the
pages.