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[Richard H]

I've been upgrading the forum software, you will note I do this in the early hours to cause no disruption to the majority of users who are usually ASLEEP.

Anyway, job done, all should be ok, any problems let me know.

[broadsword]

Ok, lol i must be nocturnal!

[broadsword]

Why am i getting this in the top left corner?



If you can see the messages it says -1 New Messages
Anyone know why?

[Richard H]

I'll look into this for you with the forum software developers.

[PyroKid]

Hi There

Just thought id mention that the forum has been displaying error messages or "this page can not be displayed" at times for me aswell.

[broadsword]

that would probably be your connection, are you on a 56k modem or broadband? Or something else?

[PyroKid]

im on a broadband connection ....

600Kbps - wireless router (shared between a number of PCs)

it sometimes brings up some wiered coding of some sort when atempting to access a number of topics.

Will post exactly what happens should it happen again.

[Richard H]

I know what you mean, but it's certainly a user-end occurence, not server-end. It often happens on a dodgy connection.

[pritch]

I also regularly have connection problems and database errors but only with this site.... Mysql is running on the server as are the querys. So the user sends the command, the server does everything it has to and then it is returning errors because something has went wrong. The problem with not being able to enter the site is obviously connection but since everyone has the problem you can assume it must be the connection to the server. Personally I would dump your host

www.findmyhosting.com

I think the main problem is that your host is not capable of handling the amount of traffic your site recieves. I have got errors about too many simultaneous connections to the database which pretty much sums it up.

[Richard H]

Actually I have an excellent host, and you will notice the forums may go offline infrequently, late at night. This is due to maintenence, which is actually quite normal.

There are no problems with the sever being overloaded. The connection problem occured as a result of a MySQL misconfig.

PyroKid's problem sounds like his browser dumping raw XML rather than parsing it.

[alany]

I couldn't reach the site most of yesterday, but it came back in the evening. Same deal today, it just came back. Was the site down for maintenance? The traceroute was:

traceroute to ukrocketry.co.uk (66.98.186.88), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 10.141.136.1 (10.141.136.1) 7.961 ms 8.037 ms 8.683 ms
2 CPE-61-9-195-3.nsw.bigpond.net.au (61.9.195.3) 9.468 ms 8.545 ms 10.019 ms
3 GigabitEthernet2-1.chw38.Sydney.telstra.net (139.130.35.9) 22.508 ms 213.804 ms 10.319 ms
4 GigabitEthernet14-0.chw-core2.Sydney.telstra.net (203.50.20.129) 11.826 ms 9.414 ms 9.251 ms
5 InterfaceA.oxf-core1.Sydney.telstra.net (203.50.6.2) 10.383 ms 8.617 ms 10.257 ms
6 GigabitEthernet6-0.syd-core04.Sydney.net.reach.com (203.50.13.34) 9.887 ms 10.530 ms 9.685 ms
7 i-1-0.paix-core01.net.reach.com (202.84.249.86) 167.745 ms 166.863 ms 170.483 ms
8 134.159.63.250 (134.159.63.250) 325.166 ms 332.045 ms 324.174 ms
9 so-4-2-0.mpr3.sjc2.us.above.net (64.125.28.222) 320.296 ms 320.226 ms 323.383 ms
10 so-0-0-0.mpr4.sjc2.us.above.net (64.125.30.2) 324.119 ms 323.468 ms 324.638 ms
11 so-2-3-0.cr1.dfw2.us.above.net (64.125.29.50) 316.097 ms 317.219 ms 338.099 ms
12 so-3-1-0.mpr1.iah1.us.above.net (64.125.30.229) 330.685 ms 330.226 ms 330.272 ms
13 216.200.251.61.ev1.net (216.200.251.61) 684.326 ms 638.373 ms 628.371 ms
14 ivhou-207-218-245-110.ev1.net (207.218.245.110) 653.361 ms 686.062 ms 685.451 ms
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Which suggests some kind of network fault upstream between the US and UK?

[Firefiend]

Hi, I?ve been having a problem accessing this forum for a few weeks now. The symptoms are:

- Very slow page loading (up to 10 seconds), even though I?m on BTopenworld 2MB Broadband.

- Pages are very slow to scroll. They appear to keep trying to refresh, accompanied by a clicking noise.

- While this is happening, I get unusual messages in the status bar, such as ?Opening page res://C:\windows\system32\shddoclc.dll/dnserror.htm?? or hyperlinks ending in ?/dnserror.htm??

I currently access dozens of other sites without similar problems, including the UK Rocketry main and photo album sites and the UK Firework Review Forum, which uses the same make of software as this forum.

I don?t think there are any viruses/spyware on my system, as I have McAfee and Counterspy constantly monitoring and run Adaware and Spybot weekly.

I have searched around this forum and the web, but have been unable to find details on the exact problem. I?ve not asked until now, because I hoped the problem would eventually disappear.

I?d be grateful for any advice on resolving this problem, as I?d like to once again access this excellent board at normal speed

[Richard H]

Strange. Not had any problems on my NTL 2Meg account, or any problems accessing it from the University. It seems the problem is at your end. Anyone else had issues of late?

[karlfoxman]

That is strange, i have never had a problem with the forum. Try using a different browser like Mozzilla Firefox, its free to download. I have had problems with IE in the past and now i use Firefox i never get problems. Download it HERE

[Firefiend]

Hi Richard & Karl

I'm pretty certain the problem is my end, otherwise you would have had many others with the same problem. It's just strange that I am only getting the problem on this site out of the dozens I visit. Maybe some PC expert will come up with an idea of what the problem is. In the meantime, I might give Firefox a try on my backup PC. Thanks