Troubleshooting Inaccessible Websites

  At one point I was asking myself "what would I do if a website was not opening".A year back I would've left it at that.Coming to the present I came across a some interesting sites and did a little research.This blog is the result of that...
  Coming back the first thing to do is to check if others can access the site.A very popular way is through Twitter.Or ask people who you can chat with.In case you want to do it yourself  head over to downforeveryoneorjustme.com and enter the site name.Clicking on just me will tell whether the site is accessible to others.
  In the first scenario (site is down for you alone) try opening the site in different browsers.Check your network,firewall settings and so on.
  In the other scenario (site is down for all) the solution is to access a cached version of the page stored on a different server.Here's a few ways to do that:
 1.Search the url in google and clicked on cached to access the page.
 2.Add nyud.net to the url.For example in the case of google.com change the url to google.com.nyud.net
 3.Try web archives like web.archive.org or webcitation.org.However they usually have older versions stored in the site.
   But if you're using firefox just use this addon to automatically search in these sites.
  This is all I've on the topic..atleast for now..
 Update:There is another addon for firefox users that performs the same function:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13694