Vecchio Austriaco Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Have been "thrown out" several times during the last couple of days - noticing that other sites run without problems, even with heavy stuff like streaming videos. About the friends stalking comment - Danny - I throw you out of my list - may be we see an improvement? Cheers VA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly boy3 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 If our forum is sick, its life. When we are sick a doctor is never on hand. LoL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Cotsford Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 I've been getting 'hiccups' for the last two or three days both through Win Xp with IE8 or Chrome and Ubuntu running Firefox. Popup boxes freeze (smilies, image attachment etc) especially under Chrome, and refreshes can take forever.Taint right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiltshire Flyer Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Been fine for me on Firefox today, this is the second time i have logged on today and no issues with Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flytilbroke Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Earlier this evening I tried to access it and could not. Ok just now. As others mention, it has been poorly the last few days. IE, Chrome, Firefox, just the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 I can't put pictures in a post in Chrome on Windows Vista. I've had this issue a couple of times, and had to resort to Firefox. Its odd becasue it does work occasionally. Tonight, when I clicked on the "insert picture" icon the whole page turned light blue, as if I had selected it, but then the browser locked up and I could do nothing. I had to shut the tab down. Firefox is working OK for posting pictures etc, but it would be nice to be able to use Chrome! In case anyone is interested I'm using release 15.0.874.121 m od said browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Jones Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 The cyber streets are probably crammed full of interent shoppers at the moment and that will affect performance regardelss of browser. Switching off, restarting or changing browser often just means you open a new route to the interent server which may or may not be more succesful. I have had similar timeout problems with a number of web sites over the last week or so. I suspect that we will have to be patient and wait until the new year before we will know if this is the case or not but I certainly observed this effect when I had a slower broadband service in previous years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiltshire Flyer Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 I'm feeling left out! i log on about twice a day everyday and i have not had one issue in the last 2 weeks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Jones Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 I hop eyou haven't spoken too soon DF! Do you live very close to your telephone exchange? That might be a factor, the further away you are the more sluggish the performance which will be amplified at peak periods of use. I wonder if there's a common ISP amongst the people having problems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve W-O Posted December 7, 2011 Author Share Posted December 7, 2011 Well, it's clear there is a problem at times. As others have said, other sites, both domestic and international, are fine at the times the forum is not, and it makes no difference what operating system and browser combination is used, so it looks like the problem is at the hosting site. Posted by Ian Jones on 07/12/2011 00:28:49: I hop eyou haven't spoken too soon DF! Do you live very close to your telephone exchange? That might be a factor, the further away you are the more sluggish the performance which will be amplified at peak periods of use. I wonder if there's a common ISP amongst the people having problems? Could be ISP, but unlikely. I use Virgin, and they do often seem to have/create problems with certain sites. As many areas are not cabled, it is unlikely that all the people with problems are on Virgin. Of course that also makes the distance to the exchange irrelevant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ashby - Moderator Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 I'll ask our people to look into it chaps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 There might be a correlation between posts hanging and quoting previous text using the quote button. It's happening on another session from the same browser at this very moment - I can't move the cursor...Edited By Martin Harris on 07/12/2011 12:26:06 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly P Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 Oddly enough, when moving from this thread to one on the recent activity box my browser timed out..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Payne Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 Just to add to the confusion, it is the same from my iPad. It isn't doing this on other sites to this degree, so perhaps the site is struggling behind the scenes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruffmeister Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 I don't think this is a browser issue. I have observed this across a number of browsers over time... my guess is that the site has too much traffic for the server it is running on. Time for some capital investment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terence Lynock Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 Bad connection times earlier on,decided it was down to IE8 so just loaded Firefox 7 , working like a good un now, far faster and instant connections.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiltshire Flyer Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Posted by Steve W-O on 07/12/2011 05:10:30: Well, it's clear there is a problem at times. As others have said, other sites, both domestic and international, are fine at the times the forum is not, and it makes no difference what operating system and browser combination is used, so it looks like the problem is at the hosting site. Posted by Ian Jones on 07/12/2011 00:28:49: I hop eyou haven't spoken too soon DF! Do you live very close to your telephone exchange? That might be a factor, the further away you are the more sluggish the performance which will be amplified at peak periods of use. I wonder if there's a common ISP amongst the people having problems? Could be ISP, but unlikely. I use Virgin, and they do often seem to have/create problems with certain sites. As many areas are not cabled, it is unlikely that all the people with problems are on Virgin. Of course that also makes the distance to the exchange irrelevant. I do use Virgin Edited By Dorset flyer on 08/12/2011 00:18:49 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 5.12pm...the site is playing up--taking an age to open some pages/post...... ken anderson ne..1 IT dept.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 5.12pm...the site is playing up--taking an age to open some pages/post...... ken anderson ne..1 IT dept.. ps..i've clicked on Add Posting and its hanging.....(prop) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ashby - Moderator Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Yep definately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ashby - Moderator Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 I've got Mark (webtech) on the case now....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve W-O Posted December 8, 2011 Author Share Posted December 8, 2011 Looks like it is hosted in the UK which will make sorting it out a little easier, hope they find the problem, as it does get frustrating. Sure they will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ashby - Moderator Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Response from web hosts....... We have been having a bit of a ding dong with one of our upstream providers about this but in the last few minutes they have come back to us and told us they think it is now solved. There have been bursts of traffic at roughly the same time over several days not on our equipment but within the same centre. The message within the last few minutes was that they have now traced the IPs involved and blocked them. We'll keep an eye on things but let us know if things slow down again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 testing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Jones Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 At this moment I'm running spotify, editing a Joomla website, got skype in the background and a few other windows open. Loaded this page without any problems - let's hope that's a sign of good things to come Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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