micro down time on overclockers.co.uk. anyone able to help?

Reaper 392

Reaper 392

Reaper 392

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ive had this problem pretty much since i started using overclockers, but today its gone from a minor annoyance, happening a few times in a day once every two weeks or so, to happening pretty much every minute or so.

what is happening is i will try and get to any part of overclockers.co.uk, or any part of the forums, and google chrome will get stuck on sending request. usually, a minute or so and several million F5's later, i will be able to get to the site, and all will be well. however, today this isnt so. when the site is up, i will be lucky to load even half the page before it goes down again.

this problem happend both when i am at home, and when i am at university. it happens on my laptop and on my PC in both places, and it happens on google chrome and internet explorer, so i am 95% sure its not a problem at my end

can anyone gve me any advice on stopping this happening, because its got t the point where OcUK is completely unusable

thanks

ps. feel free to move this thread somewhere else more appropriate. wasnt sure where to put it myself
 
Started happening to me at work and at home when using Chrome, switched to FF4 and no more issues.
 
could you explain to me how to do all those things please, in morons terms preferably :P
i have no idea about most of this stuff

(except installing FF4, i know how to do that)
 
If it's been happening over the course of a few weeks I'd assume his DNS cache had been updated a couple of times surely.

Definitely worth trying though.

In laymen's terms when you connect to a website e.g. overclockers.co.uk your computer doesn't know where to look to find the server that hosts that website. What it does is go to your DNS (Domain Name Sever) and ask where it is. Your DNS will then respond with the correct server to look at.

The responses for these requests are sorted (cached) by your computer so that the next time it looks for that website it can go directly there. If however it got told the wrong server by your DNS (for one reason or another) and it stored that server then you might see the problem that you're experiencing.

Flushing your DNS may fix this as it will force your computer to go to your DNS and get the correct server.

However, if your DNS has a fault then you may see this problem again in the future.

The DNS you use defaults to the one dictated by your internet provider. Some ISPs (internet service providers) are known to have slow or unreliable DNS (such as Virgin Media) and as such there are alternatives you can use.

Google provide a free alternative (http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/) as do OpenDNS (http://www.opendns.com/) which also provide a paid for service.

I personally use OpenDNS because I've found them to be both reliable, responsive and they provide usage history.

Keep in mind that when visiting websites that fast domain name resolution via your DNS can give tangible increase in page load performance and in my opinion trying alternatives is well worth investigating just for that.

Roy
 
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