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Rafe wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 6:00 am Not that it means anything, but just a note that last night was the first time I was able to get onto the forum in a week. Tried every day, but it either timed out or I got the dreaded gateway error. It's such a shame it's not very usable any more.

I posted that at 05:00 on the 21st, and the post itself never reloaded afterward; kept getting a "500" server error.

And right now is the first time I've been able to log-on again since the 21st. Just in case this thread serves as a record of sorts of the continued problems.

Not giving up. I want the forum to come back to life!

Not that it means anything, but just a note that last night was the first time I was able to get onto the forum in a week. Tried every day, but it either timed out or I got the dreaded gateway error. It's such a shame it's not very usable any more.

Keith B wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:26 pm Make sure you don’t have an antivirus or malware program that is clearing your browser cache periodically.

Nope. And I have the domain name specifically whitelisted in Chrome, as well.

What's interesting, though, is that I can no longer find any cookies set by the forum. I've browsed through cookies by "most visited," as well as searched by several different variants of the domain name and the first two octets (network class and network) of the IP address of the server. I'd thought the "remember me" function was almost certainly established via a cookie, but if it is it's under a domain name that I can't guess.

On the IP address, it may not have any effect but one thing I found interesting is that the previous IP address I had for the server was 208.77.216.52, but now it's pinging as 208.77.216.135.

May not help anyone diagnose why the forum is behaving so sporadically (I'm getting fewer bad gateway errors but still seeing it load normally sometime, but more often than not slowed to a dial-up level crawl), I just did a quick tracert. I'm not using a VPN right now, and here are the final hops after the request leaves my own provider's network:

28ms ae59.ter1.dfw2.us.zip.zayo.com [64.125.14.252] (https://www.zayo.com/; "As a global internet backbone company, Zayo is the leading independent provider of light-speed data transmission infrastructure...")

* Request timed out.

29ms ae16.mpr2.dfw5.us.zip.zayo.com [64.125.22.207] (That the previous request timed out and this one stayed within the Zayo network would tell me that the timed-out request was probably trying to go to a PSI target, below.)

39ms 38.142.84.226 (PSINet, Inc. (PSI); IP allocations within 38.0.0.0/8 are used for Cogent customer static IP assignments; https://www.cogentco.com/en/.)

42ms node.ave6.virtbiz.com [208.77.216.234] (https://www.virtbiz.com/; "VIRTBIZ is a 25-year veteran in the highly competitive Dallas hosting market. Our customer service really sets us apart from the rest."

44ms texaschlforum.com [208.77.216.135]

I think I may try that again the next time I find the forum responding v e r y slowly again.

Another new one for me. I was logged in and replying to a thread this morning and, when I clicked to preview what I'd written I was sent to a page to log-in. I always have the "keep me logged in" option checked, and I understand that sometimes the auth cookie will expire and I have to log on again. But I've never had it do that in the middle of an active session. Normally those things get refreshed each time you successfully log on. I guess I need to make sure, if I don't start writing posts offline and then copy/paste, that I at least copy what I've written to the PC's clipboard before I preview or submit in order to keep from losing what I've already typed.