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Site struggling ? * THIS IS NOT A FAKE MESSAGE - Posted By TCB (circlebar) on 31st Oct 17 at 8:27am
FORUM not loading
Browsers - IE and Firefox

We have a small but active forum which has been in existence for a number of years. In the last few weeks it have been getting more and more difficult to get into it. It either hangs or just refuses to load. Is there a problem with the vforums set-up now ? I am aware the support site does not seem very active nowadays either.

I do hope vforums days are not numbered as a provider. Please advise. Thank you.

Re: Site struggling ? - Posted By Defiant1 (defiant1) on 31st Oct 17 at 10:09pm
Same here. I hope the problem gets resolved. I was getting a "Can't access the DB" error.
Re: Site struggling ? - Posted By TCB (circlebar) on 1st Nov 17 at 9:08am
Yep. Getting that as well as it just hanging or reverting to the previous web page I had open.
It's a little better this morning and yesterday morning but later in the day was no go again. Heavier internet traffic generally once the US wakes up? Who knows ?

I hope we can get some answer to this. We really don't want to lose our forum {Sad}
Re: Site struggling ? - Posted By TCB (circlebar) on 2nd Nov 17 at 4:03pm
Looks as if we've been spammed. {Cry}

This is a bona fide request for the support team please.

Bringing the thread back to the top........
Re: Site struggling ? - Posted By TCB (circlebar) on 17th Nov 17 at 8:51am
Bumped back to the top.
Re: Site struggling ? - Posted By Defiant1 (defiant1) on 22nd Nov 17 at 9:18pm
I'm getting this error on most attempts to connect:

Quote:
Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator at webmaster@localhost to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


Firefox is also giving this message on some attempts to connect.


Quote:
Content Encoding Error

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.

Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.


Re: Site struggling ? - Posted By Defiant1 (defiant1) on 25th Nov 17 at 7:50pm
Bump!
Re: Site struggling ? * THIS IS NOT A FAKE MESS.. - Posted By TCB (circlebar) on 30th Nov 17 at 11:08am
Yep. We are getting "internal server error" most times we try to connect, too.

It's frustrating. {Sad}
Re: Site struggling ? * THIS IS NOT A FAKE MESS.. - Posted By Defiant1 (defiant1) on 1st Dec 17 at 12:57am
I couldn't connect at all yesterday. It's all just very slow right now.

Re: Site struggling ? * THIS IS NOT A FAKE MESS.. - Posted By Defiant1 (defiant1) on 17th Dec 17 at 12:38pm
I'm glad to see it's working, but it is a little slow. Perhaps the problem was a spam attack coinciding with Black Friday? Just a guess.