Alan P Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Been noticing frequent problems accessing the site of late - in the past week it seems to be getting worse. Slow loading times on first opening the site, or freezing during refresh, and Service Unavailable and 503 error messages particularly when navigating back to the homepage. I use a VPN (which hasn't posed any problems before) and mostly access the site through Chrome for Android on a Google Pixel phone. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Knight Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 I've been getting a lot of that over the last few days I thought it was just my system One other I've been getting is a white screen with 'Forbidden' on it and some lines of techno words and another; I 'open' another tab to read certain postings on a thread, at random, rather than to and back. Sometimes that tab just won't open the posting and after a while it times out. It took 4 attempts to open a tab to one thread 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Yep. It's all true, and I've now opened up a ticket with support along the lines of "get it fixed or move us to a new server for no charge", and we'll see how they respond to it. We can but hope. 12 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray S Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 16 minutes ago, Mike said: Yep. It's all true, and I've now opened up a ticket with support along the lines of "get it fixed or move us to a new server for no charge", and we'll see how they respond to it. We can but hope. Good luck with that one Mike. I hope it does get sorted quickly on your behalf for us! All the best and thanks for geeing them up, Ray 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stef N. Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Mrs Mike: "Where are you off to dear?" Mike: "I'm just popping to Invision HQ to sort out some technical issues." 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Lyttle Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I've been getting a strange interference pattern, like a venitian blind, happening in random boxes, and shuffled bits of text in strange boxes I thought it might be my phone, which suffered a hard drop on the corner and cracked screen etc.... But My NEW phone is picking up the same wierd behaviour. Anyone else getting this phenomenon?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Thompson Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Also getting a lot of no secure server messages today, as well as the usual glaciality. Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Laidlaw Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 I've been getting more and more errors recently, and the response time is poor. It gets there eventually though. Today I got a brand new error message, however: Clearly it's lying about the "No such file or directory", as when I clicked "Try again", it worked . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 I had an email a little while ago telling me that Support had done more jiggery and pokery with the hoosits and wotsits, and see whether that helps at all. I can't recall whether I've had any errors in the last 40 minutes or so, but we'll see. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Laidlaw Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 The site seems faster, certainly, and the errors have not been occurring since. Fingers crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psdavidson Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Got the Existential Crisis 500 error today, the first of the year I think. Not seen my usual quota of 503's so far Pages also seem to load a tad faster Maybe the added an extra hamster to the wheel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 24 minutes ago, John Laidlaw said: The site seems faster, certainly, and the errors have not been occurring since. Fingers crossed. At the risk of tempting providence, I've had the same experience so far too. We shall see. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan P Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 8 minutes ago, Mike said: At the risk of tempting providence, I've had the same experience so far too. We shall see. Again, without jinxing things, it's looking far more stable and 'normal' today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsbody Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 There's been a small issue with our Wifi for a couple of weeks. I just thought the forum issues were because of our provider messing things up again. It happens somewhat often, up here on The Backside Of Beyond! Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 I had a 500 error a little while ago. Only one so far though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neddy Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Early days but it's a definite improvement in response and no errors here yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neddy Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 24 hours on and the site seems faster, more responsive and a lot more stable. No error messages here so far either. Kudos to Mike and the Mods (I still think that'd make a great rock band name) for sticking with it and leaning on the hosting company - looks like it's paid off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullbasket Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Yes, it's definitely loading quicker, but I got two 500's yesterday, both times as I was clicking back to the home page. John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Russell Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 After having the usual error message for months I got a 500 error just now. Because that one is Britmodeller-specific, it must be a malicious act by someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 The site does seem better, and so far I've only had one 500 since they did their "thing". Anyone that gets an error should post up here, so we can get the largest sample size. We don't seem to be getting those long lags though, from what I've been seeing, which has got to be an improvement. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Laidlaw Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 The site's been much improved, and I've had no errors at all yet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg B Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 10 hours ago, John Laidlaw said: The site's been much improved, and I've had no errors at all yet. We shall thank the party wholly responsible for the increased site power: 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul821 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 On 2/19/2023 at 2:21 PM, rob Lyttle said: I've been getting a strange interference pattern, like a venitian blind, happening in random boxes, and shuffled bits of text in strange boxes I thought it might be my phone, which suffered a hard drop on the corner and cracked screen etc.... But My NEW phone is picking up the same wierd behaviour. Anyone else getting this phenomenon?? Only just picked this up. I don't get this on my Windows 10 Dell laptop but on my Amazon Fire tablet it is a common occurrence. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 On 19/02/2023 at 14:21, rob Lyttle said: I've been getting a strange interference pattern, like a venitian blind, happening in random boxes, and shuffled bits of text in strange boxes I thought it might be my phone, which suffered a hard drop on the corner and cracked screen etc.... But My NEW phone is picking up the same wierd behaviour. Anyone else getting this phenomenon?? 1 hour ago, Paul821 said: Only just picked this up. I don't get this on my Windows 10 Dell laptop but on my Amazon Fire tablet it is a common occurrence. . Me too on the “just picked this up” front. This sounds more like a rendering issue of your browser. Check you have the most up to date version of your OS and your browser, and if possible, try a different one, so if you use Chrome, try Firefox, and if you use the Amazon bespoke browser that I forget the name of, try ANYTHING other than that data hoovering weird thing. The site is responsible for sending you pics and pages, it’s your browser that does the displaying, whilst calling on standard graphics routines from your OS, which is why I mention this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul821 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Just clicked on the notification that @Mike had quoted me and got my first 500 error for some time. about 10:58 GMT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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