Forum Problems? (Read 1,990 times)

[r2ro]

Is anyone else experiencing problems accessing the forum?

On the www.forum.sy-transport.co.uk/index.cgi? address I simply get webpage cannot be displayed and have been since 2115 yesterday.

I'm using the forum.sy-transport.co.uk/index.cgi? address and that, to now, is working fine with no problems.

[admin]

If you hit F5 / Refresh it should load up on the 2nd instance. Sadly this is due to limitations been put into place, following the major DDOS attack on the hosting servers yesterday, so it's a fine line between determining legitimate and bot traffic.

Both URLs should be affected in the very same way. Also during this time in order to fully save your work and not lose it, before posting replies/new threads it would be advisable to copy and paste your message once finished as a precaution, in case your connection to the forum times out.

ProBoards (forum host) are looking into this matter at the moment, and the problem is widespread.

Thanks,
Staff at South Yorkshire Transport

[r2ro]

Thanks for the info. At least I know it's a proboards problem and nothing necessarily wrong with my machine.

It's strange that I'm still having no look with the forum-sytransport after refreshing but the travelsy.proboards is still working fine.

[admin]

R2ro, can I ask you to perform a traceroute please and PM me the results to forward on?

The instructions can be found here if needed: www.mediacollege.com/internet/troubleshooter/traceroute.html

Also which internet browser and operating system are you currently using?

Thanks,
Staff at South Yorkshire Transport

[r2ro]

Jan 7, 2011 19:36:31 GMT admin said:

R2ro, can I ask you to perform a traceroute please and PM me the results to forward on?

The instructions can be found here if needed: www.mediacollege.com/internet/troubleshooter/traceroute.html

Also which internet browser and operating system are you currently using?

Thanks,
Staff at South Yorkshire Transport

Just about to do the traceroute and the forum-sytransport domain is working again.

Do you still want me to trace route?

[admin]

No need now R2ro, the connectivity issues should now be resolved.

Thanks,
Staff at South Yorkshire Transport

[lapike]

i don't know if anyone else has this problem, but sometimes when i'm on the forum i get redirected to simplybe.co.uk??

[tm2010]

While on forum today,there were no Icons for the top menu and all the side images for the boards were just blank spaces.
Was directed a few times while logging in to various pages that just turned out to be blank.

[admin]

Jan 12, 2011 12:56:02 GMT lapike said:

i don't know if anyone else has this problem, but sometimes when i'm on the forum i get redirected to simplybe.co.uk??

If that happens again, please hit Ctrl + Alt + R and fill out a report, explaining the situation. Note you will need to do this only on the page that this advert/redirect occurs as it takes a snapshot of both the page and coding automatically.

Not aware of this happening to any other users or myself. Certainly not something that has been reported by ProBoards. Is this happening just when accessing the forum at all? Just that after checking there is no marketing campaign by 'SimplyBe' on the forum, so find it slightly strange.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Staff at South Yorkshire Transport

[admin]

Jan 12, 2011 16:59:53 GMT tm2010 said:

While on forum today,there were no Icons for the top menu and all the side images for the boards were just blank spaces.
Was directed a few times while logging in to various pages that just turned out to be blank.

Be a small glitch/malfunction relating to the server. Was this a temporary thing or has it occurred again? No spikes in the data that show up, so it may have possibly been your connection to the forum.

Thanks for the information/report.

Thanks,
Staff at South Yorkshire Transport

[Deleted]

On the main website & when you click on the Fleetlists button a HostVoice Template screen popped up for starting up a website at 5:45pm.

[admin]

Main website server is down and the hosting company for some bizarre reason are re-directing to an advertising page. Not very happy about that to say the least and have already contacted them. One of the main reasons why I am now considering moving hosts/providers for the main website, as the servers have been fluctuating between online/offline since the end of November now with no short term fix/solution even mentioned as yet.

Thanks,
Staff at South Yorkshire Transport

[samkeenan25]

Is the fleet list page down? I've just tried going on it and nothing comes up.

[admin]

Yes it was, although the problem has now been resolved and fixed.

Thanks,
Staff at South Yorkshire Transport

[Deleted]

The HostVoice template screens have returned on the main website & fleetlists button.