Problem with forums?
 

Several times in the last couple of days I'm getting timeout errors that the site cannot be loaded. It seems to be only affecting me on this site. Is there server trouble?

Andrea Rose

No Apparent problem here.

What browser are you using?

Anyone else having problems?

CT

I've always used Google Chrome. It seems to be better now, but earlier it would just refuse to connect. Even on the mobile browser it's been doing the same thing.

Cool I'm on Chrome too.

Thanks for letting us know, we'll have a look into it. :)

CT

Here's the error I got just a couple minutes ago:

Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data.

Possible fault on your system, CT will tell you more.

It may be a trans atlantic issue possibly caused by the weather we are having here in the UK ATM.
It will be interesting to see if anyone in the UK reports similar problems.

Although the server farms are weather proof, there have been physical exchange and power supply issues at some UK ISP's over the last couple of days.
This _could_ account for the timeout on a longer routing.

I'm catching up on my annual leave (at home) ATM but got called in to work today because of issues on our system relating to poor internet connectivity, it turned out to be weather related, offsite. :slaphead

We'll keep an eye on things. ;)

CT

That's a Chrome specific error.

If you have IE on your system could you please try logging in with that, next time you receive an error message, and report back on the results. Just for elimination purposes. (The problem, ...not you. ;) :D)

CT

I would agree if it was a system fault, however, the unable to load also happened on the mobile browser on the phone (chrome and firefox), and as well as on the Macbook running Safari. It's possible that our local internet connection could have been a culprit, but it also failed while on the air (4g network) instead of on wifi. So I would guess CT is more correct with issues over weather. As I did state earlier, this is the ONLY site affected with the unable to load problems that are sporadic.

The forum seems to be running very slowly today. I guess this could well be related to the local conditions highlighted by Cyber Ted.