diff --git a/include/socgraph.php b/include/socgraph.php
index 21e27e52b..f35459d79 100644
--- a/include/socgraph.php
+++ b/include/socgraph.php
@@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ function poco_check_server($server_url, $network = "", $force = false) {
 			dbesc($last_failure),
 			dbesc(normalise_link($server_url))
 		);
-	else
+	elseif (!$failure)
 		q("INSERT INTO `gserver` (`url`, `nurl`, `version`, `site_name`, `info`, `register_policy`, `poco`, `noscrape`, `network`, `platform`, `created`, `last_contact`, `last_failure`)
 					VALUES ('%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', %d, '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s')",
 				dbesc($server_url),