Continuing site problems, March 2019

Just bought a π 0W for 5bux t’other day. Even has wifi built in, and is the size of a ketchup packet (got pix).

Anyhoo, only had a 5min hiccough where no one was answering.

Hi Tom Tom (and everyone else), my apologies for the slow reply. I’m currently traveling with very poor internet access, so I’m only handling urgent site issues. I’m looking through the system logs to see if I can figure out why that’s happening.

Tom Tom weird im here daily almost more or less and i dont experiene any site issues or problems ? im using firefox if it matters…

Tom Tom,

Not had any issues here, been on every day, on multiple devices.

UK based.
Firefox, Win10 (usually have NordVPN on set to UK).
Chrome, Android, tablet & Phone.

I’ve never had any problems regarding BLF speed, unless at peak times between 5:30 and 6:45 PM EST.

No issues for me. Normally on android using Brave n Chrome

No issues here on Firefox. But the lack of SSL may become a problem in the future.

i am online 18 hours a day - 7 days a week and check BLF often in that timeframe

NEVER had issues (besides the real downtimes)

It would be a good idea to enable HTTPS, but SSL is deprecated. TLS 1.2 should be used at a minimum.

Let’s Encrypt! makes it very easy and free to obtain a certificate which is trusted by all major platforms.

This

Mostly using mobile devices, but I rarely have issues loading the forum. Maybe just a PC thing.

You really need to get another life. :stuck_out_tongue:

No problems here either. Desktop running Waterfox, Tab & Phone running Brave

With respect, reports of “no problems” whilst encouraging, won’t help diagnosis for those may be. Who may still be virtually locked out, as am I.

It’s only because I am so stubborn that I keep trying, every once in a while something gets through.

I have updated BudgetLightForum.com Status Updates: [FINISHED] Down for maintenance in the hopes that it is useful to sbd, once he is able to investigate.

Try 8.

Tom Tom, just curious, are you seeing this issue using different devices and different browsers?

I was. Full details on posted on blogspot.

Windows, Android, fibre broadband, 4G mobile broadband, my neighbour’s broadband, my Supermarket free WiFi, Opera, Opera Touch, Chrome, IE, Edge, Firefox. Ajax errors, Drupal errors, SQL errors, timeouts.

Have had better luck today, but still not perfect.

Hoping that sbd’s maintenance today has resolved things. I’ll give it a day or two.

Try 1

Doesn’t sound like anyone is having problems other than you.

NO PROBLEMS!.
Safari.

No problems here either. I reckon there is something else to blame if it’s doing it on all those examples. How can it be sharing the problems over all platforms and connections, seems very strange to me.

Hi Tom Tom, did things improve for you today after I finished the routine maintenance ?

Greatly improved since yesterday. Not quite perfect, still seeing the occasional error messages, and being bumped off when trying to post (just returns to an empty comment field) but more like 1:10 than 10:1. Hoping that might settle down.

Many thanks for addressing this, I was beginning to get paranoid thinking it was just me.

Oops, that didn’t go too well. Another server error. Try 2